Author: lingoXpress
Publisher: lingoXpress
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Welcome to a world where darkness and learning intertwine, where each spine-chilling tale not only terrifies but teaches. In this gripping collection, you'll encounter haunted houses, bloody killers, and malevolent spirits, each story crafted to immerse you in fear while expanding your vocabulary and sharpening your grammar skills. As you turn each page, you'll discover: Engaging Vocabulary: Encounter rich, contextualized words that stick with you long after the story ends. Complex Grammar Made Simple: Learn to describe places, things, and situations vividly, using real, thrilling contexts. Emotional Learning: Let the chills and suspense enhance your memory and retention. Adjectives and Adverbs: Horror stories often rely on vivid descriptions to set the scene. Students can learn to use a variety of adjectives and adverbs to create detailed and atmospheric descriptions. Prepositions of Place: Understanding the spatial relationships in a scene is crucial in horror stories. Learners can practice using prepositions like "detrás", "debajo" y "entre". Noun Phrases: Horror stories frequently use complex noun phrases to describe objects and characters in detail. Students can learn to expand their sentences with additional information, making their descriptions more vivid. Relative Clauses: Using relative clauses ("quién", "cuál", "eso") can help learners add more detail to their sentences, enhancing their descriptive abilities. Conditionals: Horror stories often deal with hypothetical situations, making them a perfect medium to practice conditional sentences (if-clauses). For example, "Si hubiera escuchado las advertencias, podría haber sobrevivido." Past Tenses: These stories frequently shift between past simple, past continuous, and past perfect to build suspense and explain backstory. This helps learners understand and use different past tenses appropriately. Passive Voice: The passive voice is often used to create a sense of mystery or focus on the action rather than the subject. For instance, "La puerta se abrió lentamente por una fuerza invisible." Quotations and Reporting Verbs: Horror stories usually include a lot of dialogue, which can help learners practice direct and indirect speech. This is essential for understanding how to report what someone else has said. Perfect for students and lovers of the macabre, this book turns the mundane into the magical and the terrifying into the terrific. The horrors within these pages are not just for fright—they are tools to elevate your Spanish to new, thrilling heights.
Practice and improve your Spanish by Reading Horror Stories!
Author: lingoXpress
Publisher: lingoXpress
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Welcome to a world where darkness and learning intertwine, where each spine-chilling tale not only terrifies but teaches. In this gripping collection, you'll encounter haunted houses, bloody killers, and malevolent spirits, each story crafted to immerse you in fear while expanding your vocabulary and sharpening your grammar skills. As you turn each page, you'll discover: Engaging Vocabulary: Encounter rich, contextualized words that stick with you long after the story ends. Complex Grammar Made Simple: Learn to describe places, things, and situations vividly, using real, thrilling contexts. Emotional Learning: Let the chills and suspense enhance your memory and retention. Adjectives and Adverbs: Horror stories often rely on vivid descriptions to set the scene. Students can learn to use a variety of adjectives and adverbs to create detailed and atmospheric descriptions. Prepositions of Place: Understanding the spatial relationships in a scene is crucial in horror stories. Learners can practice using prepositions like "detrás", "debajo" y "entre". Noun Phrases: Horror stories frequently use complex noun phrases to describe objects and characters in detail. Students can learn to expand their sentences with additional information, making their descriptions more vivid. Relative Clauses: Using relative clauses ("quién", "cuál", "eso") can help learners add more detail to their sentences, enhancing their descriptive abilities. Conditionals: Horror stories often deal with hypothetical situations, making them a perfect medium to practice conditional sentences (if-clauses). For example, "Si hubiera escuchado las advertencias, podría haber sobrevivido." Past Tenses: These stories frequently shift between past simple, past continuous, and past perfect to build suspense and explain backstory. This helps learners understand and use different past tenses appropriately. Passive Voice: The passive voice is often used to create a sense of mystery or focus on the action rather than the subject. For instance, "La puerta se abrió lentamente por una fuerza invisible." Quotations and Reporting Verbs: Horror stories usually include a lot of dialogue, which can help learners practice direct and indirect speech. This is essential for understanding how to report what someone else has said. Perfect for students and lovers of the macabre, this book turns the mundane into the magical and the terrifying into the terrific. The horrors within these pages are not just for fright—they are tools to elevate your Spanish to new, thrilling heights.
Publisher: lingoXpress
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Welcome to a world where darkness and learning intertwine, where each spine-chilling tale not only terrifies but teaches. In this gripping collection, you'll encounter haunted houses, bloody killers, and malevolent spirits, each story crafted to immerse you in fear while expanding your vocabulary and sharpening your grammar skills. As you turn each page, you'll discover: Engaging Vocabulary: Encounter rich, contextualized words that stick with you long after the story ends. Complex Grammar Made Simple: Learn to describe places, things, and situations vividly, using real, thrilling contexts. Emotional Learning: Let the chills and suspense enhance your memory and retention. Adjectives and Adverbs: Horror stories often rely on vivid descriptions to set the scene. Students can learn to use a variety of adjectives and adverbs to create detailed and atmospheric descriptions. Prepositions of Place: Understanding the spatial relationships in a scene is crucial in horror stories. Learners can practice using prepositions like "detrás", "debajo" y "entre". Noun Phrases: Horror stories frequently use complex noun phrases to describe objects and characters in detail. Students can learn to expand their sentences with additional information, making their descriptions more vivid. Relative Clauses: Using relative clauses ("quién", "cuál", "eso") can help learners add more detail to their sentences, enhancing their descriptive abilities. Conditionals: Horror stories often deal with hypothetical situations, making them a perfect medium to practice conditional sentences (if-clauses). For example, "Si hubiera escuchado las advertencias, podría haber sobrevivido." Past Tenses: These stories frequently shift between past simple, past continuous, and past perfect to build suspense and explain backstory. This helps learners understand and use different past tenses appropriately. Passive Voice: The passive voice is often used to create a sense of mystery or focus on the action rather than the subject. For instance, "La puerta se abrió lentamente por una fuerza invisible." Quotations and Reporting Verbs: Horror stories usually include a lot of dialogue, which can help learners practice direct and indirect speech. This is essential for understanding how to report what someone else has said. Perfect for students and lovers of the macabre, this book turns the mundane into the magical and the terrifying into the terrific. The horrors within these pages are not just for fright—they are tools to elevate your Spanish to new, thrilling heights.
Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish
Author: Turtleback Books Publishing, Limited
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781690396345
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781690396345
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Japanese Stories for Language Learners
Author: Anne McNulty
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462920128
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
A great story can lead a reader on a journey of discovery—especially if it's presented in two languages! Beautifully illustrated in a traditional style, Japanese Stories for Language Learners offers five compelling stories with English and Japanese language versions appearing on facing pages. Taking learners on an exciting cultural and linguistic journey, each story is followed by detailed translator's notes, Japanese vocabulary lists, and grammar points along with a set of discussion questions and exercises. The first two stories are very famous traditional Japanese folktales: Urashima Taro (Tale of a Fisherman) and Yuki Onna (The Snow Woman). These are followed by three short stories by notable 20th century authors: Kumo no Ito (The Spider's Thread) by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) Oborekaketa Kyodai (The Siblings Who Almost Drowned) by Arishima Takeo (1878-1923) Serohiki no Goshu (Gauche the Cellist) by Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) Reading these stories in the original Japanese script--and hearing native-speakers read them aloud in the accompanying free audio recording--helps students at every level deepen their comprehension of the beauty and subtlety of the Japanese language. Learn Japanese the fun way—through the country's rich literary history.
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462920128
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
A great story can lead a reader on a journey of discovery—especially if it's presented in two languages! Beautifully illustrated in a traditional style, Japanese Stories for Language Learners offers five compelling stories with English and Japanese language versions appearing on facing pages. Taking learners on an exciting cultural and linguistic journey, each story is followed by detailed translator's notes, Japanese vocabulary lists, and grammar points along with a set of discussion questions and exercises. The first two stories are very famous traditional Japanese folktales: Urashima Taro (Tale of a Fisherman) and Yuki Onna (The Snow Woman). These are followed by three short stories by notable 20th century authors: Kumo no Ito (The Spider's Thread) by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1892-1927) Oborekaketa Kyodai (The Siblings Who Almost Drowned) by Arishima Takeo (1878-1923) Serohiki no Goshu (Gauche the Cellist) by Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933) Reading these stories in the original Japanese script--and hearing native-speakers read them aloud in the accompanying free audio recording--helps students at every level deepen their comprehension of the beauty and subtlety of the Japanese language. Learn Japanese the fun way—through the country's rich literary history.
The Nest
Author: Kenneth Oppel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481432346
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
“The Nest leaves a lasting mark on the memory.” —The New York Times Book Review Steve just wants to save his baby brother—but what will he lose in the bargain? Kenneth Oppel’s (Silverwing, The Boundless) haunting gothic tale for fans of Coraline, is one of the most acclaimed books of the year, receiving six starred reviews. Illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. For some kids summer is a sun-soaked season of fun. But for Steve, it’s just another season of worries. Worries about his sick newborn baby brother who is fighting to survive, worries about his parents who are struggling to cope, even worries about the wasp’s nest looming ominously from the eaves. So when a mysterious wasp queen invades his dreams, offering to “fix” the baby, Steve thinks his prayers have been answered. All he has to do is say “Yes.” But “yes” is a powerful word. It is also a dangerous one. And once it is uttered, can it be taken back? Celebrated author Kenneth Oppel creates an eerie masterpiece in this compelling story that explores disability and diversity, fears and dreams, and what ultimately makes a family. Includes illustrations from celebrated artist Jon Klassen.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481432346
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
“The Nest leaves a lasting mark on the memory.” —The New York Times Book Review Steve just wants to save his baby brother—but what will he lose in the bargain? Kenneth Oppel’s (Silverwing, The Boundless) haunting gothic tale for fans of Coraline, is one of the most acclaimed books of the year, receiving six starred reviews. Illustrations from Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. For some kids summer is a sun-soaked season of fun. But for Steve, it’s just another season of worries. Worries about his sick newborn baby brother who is fighting to survive, worries about his parents who are struggling to cope, even worries about the wasp’s nest looming ominously from the eaves. So when a mysterious wasp queen invades his dreams, offering to “fix” the baby, Steve thinks his prayers have been answered. All he has to do is say “Yes.” But “yes” is a powerful word. It is also a dangerous one. And once it is uttered, can it be taken back? Celebrated author Kenneth Oppel creates an eerie masterpiece in this compelling story that explores disability and diversity, fears and dreams, and what ultimately makes a family. Includes illustrations from celebrated artist Jon Klassen.
Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Problem Solver
Author: Eric W. Vogt
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071756205
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : es
Pages : 191
Book Description
Tackle head-on all the hurdles that you find hard about learning Spanish Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Problem Solver doesn't pretend that learning Spanish is easy. Instead of covering the entirety of the language, it hones in on those areas where you might have difficulty--areas such as saber vs. conocer, tener vs. hacer, ser vs. estar, para and por, and the preterit vs. the imperfect tense. Features: A variety of extensive exercises for practice Practical and high-frequency vocabulary Answer key provided for reference and quick feedback Don't sweat those troublesome grammar areas any more! Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Problem Solver is your perfect learning tool for ironing out your troubles.
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071756205
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : es
Pages : 191
Book Description
Tackle head-on all the hurdles that you find hard about learning Spanish Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Problem Solver doesn't pretend that learning Spanish is easy. Instead of covering the entirety of the language, it hones in on those areas where you might have difficulty--areas such as saber vs. conocer, tener vs. hacer, ser vs. estar, para and por, and the preterit vs. the imperfect tense. Features: A variety of extensive exercises for practice Practical and high-frequency vocabulary Answer key provided for reference and quick feedback Don't sweat those troublesome grammar areas any more! Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Problem Solver is your perfect learning tool for ironing out your troubles.
LANGUAGE HACKING SPANISH (Learn How to Speak Spanish - Right Away)
Author: Benny Lewis
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473633230
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Crack the Code and Get Fluent Faster! "I had to learn [a new language] in a handful of days for a TV interview. I asked Benny for help and his advice was invaluable." - Tim Ferriss What if you could skip the years of study and jump right to speaking Spanish? Sound crazy? No, it's language hacking. It's about learning what's indispensable, skipping what's not - and using what you've learned to have real conversations in Spanish - from day one! Unlike most traditional language courses that try to teach you the rules of a language, Language Hacking Spanish, shows you how to learn and speak Spanish immediately through proven memory techniques, unconventional shortcuts and conversation strategies perfect by one of the world's greatest language learners, Benny Lewis, aka the Irish Polyglot. The Method Language Hacking takes a modern approach to language learning, blending the power of online social collaboration and the 80/20 principle of learning (Benny's ten #languagehacks show you how to achieve more with less!). It focuses on the conversations and language that learners need to master right away, rather than presenting language in the order of difficulty like most courses. This means you can start having conversations immediately. Course Features Each of the 10 units culminates with a speaking mission that you can choose to share on the italki Language Hacking learner community (www.italki.com/languagehacking) where you can give and get feedback and extend your learning beyond the pages of the book. The audio for this course is available for free on library.teachyourself.com or from the Teach Yourself Library app. You don't need to go abroad to learn a language any more.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473633230
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Crack the Code and Get Fluent Faster! "I had to learn [a new language] in a handful of days for a TV interview. I asked Benny for help and his advice was invaluable." - Tim Ferriss What if you could skip the years of study and jump right to speaking Spanish? Sound crazy? No, it's language hacking. It's about learning what's indispensable, skipping what's not - and using what you've learned to have real conversations in Spanish - from day one! Unlike most traditional language courses that try to teach you the rules of a language, Language Hacking Spanish, shows you how to learn and speak Spanish immediately through proven memory techniques, unconventional shortcuts and conversation strategies perfect by one of the world's greatest language learners, Benny Lewis, aka the Irish Polyglot. The Method Language Hacking takes a modern approach to language learning, blending the power of online social collaboration and the 80/20 principle of learning (Benny's ten #languagehacks show you how to achieve more with less!). It focuses on the conversations and language that learners need to master right away, rather than presenting language in the order of difficulty like most courses. This means you can start having conversations immediately. Course Features Each of the 10 units culminates with a speaking mission that you can choose to share on the italki Language Hacking learner community (www.italki.com/languagehacking) where you can give and get feedback and extend your learning beyond the pages of the book. The audio for this course is available for free on library.teachyourself.com or from the Teach Yourself Library app. You don't need to go abroad to learn a language any more.
Jawbone
Author: Mónica Ojeda
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566896304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Translated Literature! “Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?” Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy convene after school, Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a rhinestoned, Dior-scented, drag-queen god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love. Meanwhile, their literature teacher Miss Clara, who is obsessed with imitating her dead mother, struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality. Interweaving pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from from Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, and anonymous “creepypastas,” Jawbone is an ominous, multivocal novel that explores the terror inherent in the pure potentiality of adolescence and the fine line between desire and fear.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566896304
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Translated Literature! “Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?” Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy convene after school, Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a rhinestoned, Dior-scented, drag-queen god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love. Meanwhile, their literature teacher Miss Clara, who is obsessed with imitating her dead mother, struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality. Interweaving pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from from Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, and anonymous “creepypastas,” Jawbone is an ominous, multivocal novel that explores the terror inherent in the pure potentiality of adolescence and the fine line between desire and fear.
Malinche
Author: Laura Esquivel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847397182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
An extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love between the conquistador Cortez and the Indian woman Malinalli, his interpreter during his conquest of the Aztecs. Malinalli's Indian tribe has been conquered by the warrior Aztecs. When her father is killed in battle, she is raised by her wisewoman grandmother who imparts to her the knowledge that their founding forefather god, Quetzalcoatl, had abandoned them after being made drunk by a trickster god and committing incest with his sister. But he was determined to return with the rising sun and save her tribe from their present captivity. Wheh Malinalli meets Cortez she, like many, suspects that he is the returning Quetzalcoatl, and assumes her task is to welcome him and help him destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortez's thirst for conquest is all too human, and that for gold and power, he is willing to destroy anyone, even his own men, even their own love.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847397182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
An extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love between the conquistador Cortez and the Indian woman Malinalli, his interpreter during his conquest of the Aztecs. Malinalli's Indian tribe has been conquered by the warrior Aztecs. When her father is killed in battle, she is raised by her wisewoman grandmother who imparts to her the knowledge that their founding forefather god, Quetzalcoatl, had abandoned them after being made drunk by a trickster god and committing incest with his sister. But he was determined to return with the rising sun and save her tribe from their present captivity. Wheh Malinalli meets Cortez she, like many, suspects that he is the returning Quetzalcoatl, and assumes her task is to welcome him and help him destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortez's thirst for conquest is all too human, and that for gold and power, he is willing to destroy anyone, even his own men, even their own love.
Effective Programming
Author: Jeff Atwood
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781478300540
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
ABOUT THE BOOK Jeff Atwood began the Coding Horror blog in 2004, and is convinced that it changed his life. He needed a way to keep track of software development over time - whatever he was thinking about or working on. He researched subjects he found interesting, then documented his research with a public blog post, which he could easily find and refer to later. Over time, increasing numbers of blog visitors found the posts helpful, relevant and interesting. Now, approximately 100,000 readers visit the blog per day and nearly as many comment and interact on the site. Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code is your one-stop shop for all things programming. Jeff writes with humor and understanding, allowing for both seasoned programmers and newbies to appreciate the depth of his research. From such posts as "The Programmer's Bill of Rights" and "Why Cant Programmers... Program?" to "Working With the Chaos Monkey," this book introduces the importance of writing responsible code, the logistics involved, and how people should view it more as a lifestyle than a career. TABLE OF CONTENTS - Introduction - The Art of Getting Shit Done - Principles of Good Programming - Hiring Programmers the Right Way - Getting Your Team to Work Together - The Batcave: Effective Workspaces for Programmers - Designing With the User in Mind - Security Basics: Protecting Your Users' Data - Testing Your Code, So it Doesn't Suck More Than it Has To - Building, Managing and Benefiting from a Community - Marketing Weasels and How Not to Be One - Keeping Your Priorities Straight EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK As a software developer, you are your own worst enemy. The sooner you realize that, the better off you'll be.I know you have the best of intentions. We all do. We're software developers; we love writing code. It's what we do. We never met a problem we couldn't solve with some duct tape, a jury-rigged coat hanger and a pinch of code. But Wil Shipley argues that we should rein in our natural tendencies to write lots of code: The fundamental nature of coding is that our task, as programmers, is to recognize that every decision we make is a trade-off. To be a master programmer is to understand the nature of these trade-offs, and be conscious of them in everything we write.In coding, you have many dimensions in which you can rate code: Brevity of codeFeaturefulnessSpeed of executionTime spent codingRobustnessFlexibility Now, remember, these dimensions are all in opposition to one another. You can spend three days writing a routine which is really beautiful and fast, so you've gotten two of your dimensions up, but you've spent three days, so the "time spent coding" dimension is way down.So, when is this worth it? How do we make these decisions? The answer turns out to be very sane, very simple, and also the one nobody, ever, listens to: Start with brevity. Increase the other dimensions as required by testing. I couldn't agree more. I've given similar advice when I exhorted developers to Code Smaller. And I'm not talking about a reductio ad absurdum contest where we use up all the clever tricks in our books to make the code fit into less physical space. I'm talking about practical, sensible strategies to reduce the volume of code an individual programmer has to read to understand how a program works. Here's a trivial little example of what I'm talking about: if (s == String.Empty)if (s == "") It seems obvious to me that the latter case is... ...buy the book to read more!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781478300540
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
ABOUT THE BOOK Jeff Atwood began the Coding Horror blog in 2004, and is convinced that it changed his life. He needed a way to keep track of software development over time - whatever he was thinking about or working on. He researched subjects he found interesting, then documented his research with a public blog post, which he could easily find and refer to later. Over time, increasing numbers of blog visitors found the posts helpful, relevant and interesting. Now, approximately 100,000 readers visit the blog per day and nearly as many comment and interact on the site. Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code is your one-stop shop for all things programming. Jeff writes with humor and understanding, allowing for both seasoned programmers and newbies to appreciate the depth of his research. From such posts as "The Programmer's Bill of Rights" and "Why Cant Programmers... Program?" to "Working With the Chaos Monkey," this book introduces the importance of writing responsible code, the logistics involved, and how people should view it more as a lifestyle than a career. TABLE OF CONTENTS - Introduction - The Art of Getting Shit Done - Principles of Good Programming - Hiring Programmers the Right Way - Getting Your Team to Work Together - The Batcave: Effective Workspaces for Programmers - Designing With the User in Mind - Security Basics: Protecting Your Users' Data - Testing Your Code, So it Doesn't Suck More Than it Has To - Building, Managing and Benefiting from a Community - Marketing Weasels and How Not to Be One - Keeping Your Priorities Straight EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK As a software developer, you are your own worst enemy. The sooner you realize that, the better off you'll be.I know you have the best of intentions. We all do. We're software developers; we love writing code. It's what we do. We never met a problem we couldn't solve with some duct tape, a jury-rigged coat hanger and a pinch of code. But Wil Shipley argues that we should rein in our natural tendencies to write lots of code: The fundamental nature of coding is that our task, as programmers, is to recognize that every decision we make is a trade-off. To be a master programmer is to understand the nature of these trade-offs, and be conscious of them in everything we write.In coding, you have many dimensions in which you can rate code: Brevity of codeFeaturefulnessSpeed of executionTime spent codingRobustnessFlexibility Now, remember, these dimensions are all in opposition to one another. You can spend three days writing a routine which is really beautiful and fast, so you've gotten two of your dimensions up, but you've spent three days, so the "time spent coding" dimension is way down.So, when is this worth it? How do we make these decisions? The answer turns out to be very sane, very simple, and also the one nobody, ever, listens to: Start with brevity. Increase the other dimensions as required by testing. I couldn't agree more. I've given similar advice when I exhorted developers to Code Smaller. And I'm not talking about a reductio ad absurdum contest where we use up all the clever tricks in our books to make the code fit into less physical space. I'm talking about practical, sensible strategies to reduce the volume of code an individual programmer has to read to understand how a program works. Here's a trivial little example of what I'm talking about: if (s == String.Empty)if (s == "") It seems obvious to me that the latter case is... ...buy the book to read more!
The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice, Premium Fourth Edition
Author: Ronni L. Gordon
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 1260452409
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Gain the essential grammar skills needed to communicate more confidently in Spanish!Developing a good grasp of grammar is key to mastering a foreign language. This bestselling guide provides comprehensive coverage of all the elements of Spanish grammar. Each grammatical concept is clarified and then illustrated with lively example sentences. More than 400 exercises provide you with plenty of practice to apply this knowledge in everyday conversation. The exercises are contextualized with scene-setting instructions in Spanish to ensure relevance to practice conversational and writing requirements. With this edition, you’ll also have access to the unique McGraw-Hill Education Language app featuring extensive audio recordings and interactive quizzes. The app makes it easy to study on-the-go, test your comprehension, and hone your new language skills. The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice, 4th Edition features: •More than 400 engaging exercises •A pre-test to identify your existing strengths and weaknesses•A post-test for assessing your progress•Flashcards for all the vocabulary lists with progress tracking•Extensive audio exercises to test your listening comprehension•Interactive quizzes, and more
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 1260452409
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Gain the essential grammar skills needed to communicate more confidently in Spanish!Developing a good grasp of grammar is key to mastering a foreign language. This bestselling guide provides comprehensive coverage of all the elements of Spanish grammar. Each grammatical concept is clarified and then illustrated with lively example sentences. More than 400 exercises provide you with plenty of practice to apply this knowledge in everyday conversation. The exercises are contextualized with scene-setting instructions in Spanish to ensure relevance to practice conversational and writing requirements. With this edition, you’ll also have access to the unique McGraw-Hill Education Language app featuring extensive audio recordings and interactive quizzes. The app makes it easy to study on-the-go, test your comprehension, and hone your new language skills. The Ultimate Spanish Review and Practice, 4th Edition features: •More than 400 engaging exercises •A pre-test to identify your existing strengths and weaknesses•A post-test for assessing your progress•Flashcards for all the vocabulary lists with progress tracking•Extensive audio exercises to test your listening comprehension•Interactive quizzes, and more