What kind of book is PickAxe?

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bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Mar.25.03@telemark.slac.stanford.edu

Hello,

The recent discussion about PickAxe made me wonder, what kind of book
would you say PickAxe is? Right now I can only think of 3 kinds of
books:

  • Tutorial (e.g. Learn_Ruby_in_21_days)
  • Reference (e.g. Ruby_in_a_Nutshell)
  • Cookbook (e.g. The_Ruby_Way )

PickAxe doesn’t seem to fit any of the above.

How would you categorize PickAxe?

_ Here’s how I divide my books.

  1. Stays on Desk. ( The_Ruby_Way )

  2. Stays on Bookshelf. ( Ruby_Developers_Guide )

  3. Loan/recommend to people. ( Pickaxe )

  4. Recycling. ( No Ruby books in this category yet. )

_ I’d happily let you borrow my Pickaxe, but I’d insist
you buy your own copy of the Ruby Way.

I like all.

You didn’t mention the 21-days, sigh. My nephew loves it… I know why after
reading lately -www (writer writes well)…

so, I’d like to add:
3b. loan/recommend to people/students.

kind regards -botp

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Daniel Carrera dcarrera@math.umd.edu wrote:

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In article 20030326155657.2D770781D8@proxy-dmz.delmonte-phil.com,

bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Mar.25.03@telemark.slac.stanford.edu

_ Here’s how I divide my books.

  1. Stays on Desk. ( The_Ruby_Way )

  2. Stays on Bookshelf. ( Ruby_Developers_Guide )

  3. Loan/recommend to people. ( Pickaxe )

  4. Recycling. ( No Ruby books in this category yet. )

_ I’d happily let you borrow my Pickaxe, but I’d insist
you buy your own copy of the Ruby Way.

I like all.

You didn’t mention the 21-days, sigh. My nephew loves it… I know why after
reading lately -www (writer writes well)…

    • Didn’t mention it because I haven’t read it.

so, I’d like to add:
3b. loan/recommend to people/students.

_ Well, it’s been some years since I did any formal teaching, but
even then I thought students were people ( at least on the good
days). I can see where you might need to make that distinction
though %-).

_ Booker C. Bense

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On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:34:24AM +0900, bbense+comp.lang.ruby.Mar.27.03@telemark.slac.stanford.edu wrote:

_ Well, it’s been some years since I did any formal teaching, but
even then I thought students were people ( at least on the good