Originally Posted by
Matt James
Asking if Practical Programming talks about rack pulls is, to use a tortured analogy, like asking if the Silmarillion talks about hobbits. I mean, it does...but within a much broader context.
The chapter on intermediate programming alone is a wealth of information on many of the possible variations one can do. Frankly, a lot of the minutiae may not make sense until you're actually *doing* intermediate programming and understand the impact changing one variable has on other aspects of programming. The challenge is, that unlike novice programming, which is pretty cut and dried, you'll actually have to make some decisions about how to proceed. But in my opinion PP will give you all the information you need to do that.
I have it in e-book form but this is one that is probably worth shelling out the dough for the hardcopy, just because all of the tables with training examples will be much easier to read.