Book is no Playground

I started reading the book Python Playground today. Went through the first 2 chapters. With a subtitle of "Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer", I thought I had a hit on hand. Well it turns out this might have some projects. But the book just gives you the code for the projects. I don't have a chance to implement the projects myself. That is just no fun.

Might have to just toss this book aside. There is one small hope. In the next chapter, I read enough of a description before looking at the code. And I think I just may be able to try to implement the program myself. However if the rest of the book is anything like the first 2 chapters, this thing is definitely going to get tossed.

The real crime is that I purchased a new print copy of this book this year. It feels like that was a royal waste of money. The lesson learned is that I need to be able to predict whether a book will give me the opportunity to write code for the projects presented. Not sure how I will accomplish that. But I need to strive to do better in my book selection.

Luckily, I have literally 14 books on desk that I would like to read. With that large number, there has to be some of them that allow me to go off and code up the projects before seeing any solutions.

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