★ LITTÉRATURE ★ ENGLISH ★ LEARNING FORTH|Popular Computing Weekly) ★ |
| Learning Forth | Littérature English |
This introduction to Forth is described as a self teaching guide, which means that every paragraph is followed by a question. Q. What is a self teaching guide? A. Very much like this. It's a novel approach and presumably educationally sound as it reinforces every point before the reader can continue. However, it does rather resemble the rote learning of primary schools, though the payroll program developed over the last chapters is far from juvenile. Another possible problem is insufficient discussion of the language's various dialects. though the book is well appendixed and indexed. It's an attractive volume which even breaks the back of stack handling quite painlessly, if you don't mind the drill aspect. John Minson , Popular Computing Weekly Issue
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