I am finding the amount of visitors coming to this blog to be most welcoming. Thank you all for coming. Today i will be looking at two books. I bring up two books instead of one because I wanted to compare and contrast. These books are as follows : Javascript for Kids: A playful introduction to programming by Nick Morgan and Create Working Applications Write Code like a Pro by Sarah Guthals, Ph.D. Looking at these books, I would say that the target audience for these books would be pre-teen to early teens. If I were in the target audience I would reach for Guthals "Write Code like a Pro" because it was much smaller. I would think that it would be much easier to go through. However when I am looking through the text I am seeing that i would go more for the books by Nick Morgan. I have found the Guthals book to be more structured like a formal classroom setting. At the beginning of the book you are given instructions to download a program to follow along and see your work. this sounds good but the book by Morgan shows how you can check your work on Chrome. I feel more independent from Morgan than by Guthal. Both books have colors and images. Both books show the text that make up the source code. The way that they are different is that the images in Guthal's book are exclusively for the corresponding text. The images in Morgans book are more creative and somewhat whimsical. For example I posted images of the text explaning what is camel case. Camel Case is when words in the code can be capitalized and shortened in a way that doesn't follow English grammar but helps the computer follow the program. Guthal has a red stripe and a image that looks like "Tip" is stamped on. Morgan, on the other hand, has a doodle of a camel wearing a fez. Other images do not correspond with the text. For example I do not know why the cover has a happy little kitten sniffing alphabet soup but I find it cute. Conclusion: While both books are for a specific market, both have different moods to it. I feel that Guthal's book is more formal and feels like a class setting. I feel that Morgans book is more informal, like I am reading a teenage student's study notes. Both of the moods can be reflected by the companies that publish them. Guthals book is part of the "for dummies" series and Morgans book is part of "No Starch Press." If you have not heard of "No Starch Press" they release a variety of technology and coding books, some of which include "Steal this Computer Book" which can be found in the "hacking" tab on their website. Either way, both books will help you understand Javascript and how it can help programmers build their site.
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Hello everyone for this, my first blog post I am talking about the Book Custer's Last Battle or Custer's Last Battle: Red Hawk's account of the Battle of Little Bighorn. the author was Paul Goble with a forward by Joe Medicine Crow.
I feel the forward by Joe Medicine Crow helped get the reader ready for what they are about to read. Whenever I read about Custer's Last Stand I feel like I need to be solemn, but Joe talks about how he enjoys seeing the re-enactment and how his fascination for it which fuels his years of studying the battle. Paul Goble begins by sharing why he wrote this book. He noticed his son saw many accounts from the followers of Custer, who saw him as a hero but there were no accounts from the side of Crazy horse or Chief Sitting Bull. Paul puts the reader in the perspective of a Oglala man named Red Hawk. He reflects his past and the time when "long hair" attacked Little Bighorn. There are two different texts, one is the story that Red Hawk is saying and the other is Paul explaining the situation. The illustrations are reminiscent of the paintings that the survivors made to share the account of Little Bighorn. However the illustrations in the book were much more of a snapshot of a specific time rather than telling one large story on a canvas. The author calls his art an "Egyptian perspective" but the action reminds me more of a English tapestry from the Middle ages. It is an interesting perspective. You can trace how the story went from the book you are reading to the accounts of the survivors and approval from the scholars who studied it. I love that someone was able to record a history that wasn't represented well. |
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