Why is this book so special, could someone enlighten me?
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The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning
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#12Shut up and take my money! Now!
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There's also "The Little Typer" and "The Little Prover."
In the same series, there's also "A Little Java" by Matthias Felleisen, one of the creators of Racket (a popular Lisp). https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561150/a-little-java-a-few-p...
And The Little MLer.
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#14Why is this book so special, could someone enlighten me?
I've read the Little Schemer and based on that, it has a unique style of teaching. Every new concept begins as a fun little question and through a series of more questions expands to a whole concept.
It worked very well for me in learning functional programming and some computational theory ideas.
Worth it.
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#15Why is this book so special, could someone enlighten me?
Dan Friedman and the Little X-er series.
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#16Why is this book so special, could someone enlighten me?
It's special because it ignores the fact that the rest of the world uses Python for deep learning and it's an easy language for beginners too.
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#17Why is this book so special, could someone enlighten me?
this series of books has an unusual pedagogical style, with a big "bang for the buck" in terms of building up complex systems from basic steps
there is zero fluff, almost zero narration
the books are basically just input output pairs of "now do this, and now that happens"
they are basically a sort of brain data dump for people who can think with computer code
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#18Why is this book so special, could someone enlighten me?
Books in the little series are all about "learning by doing", and teach using the Socratic method (question/answer). Each concept is introduced with small problems that build upon each other. You are forced to get your hands dirty from the beginning, passive learning is not really an option. For most people, I think this helps facilitate a much deeper understanding than just reading a text.
I always had trouble with recursive functions when I was new to programming, and many recommended working through "the little schemer" to solve that problem. It was a tough read for me, but the investment was well worth it and it did for me what it said on the tin. I didn't have nearly as much trouble with recursion after that book, but an unfortunate side effect was developing an affinity for lisps which I haven't yet shaken.
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#19No way. Does it use Scheme?
EDIT: Half Life 3 confirmed: "Presents key ideas of machine learning using a small, manageable subset of the Scheme language"
Re: The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning
#20No way. Does it use Scheme? EDIT: Half Life 3 confirmed: "Presents key ideas of machine learning using a small, manageable subset of the Scheme language"
Very much so.