In what way does a list of jargon teach programming?
Would you "teach cookery without a cooker" by listing ingredients? Seems very strange.
Also, few of questions on the language:
1) "and there was no one [to] tell her different."
Shouldn't this, typo aside, be "differently"? It's modifying how she was told. I see this usage a lot but it seems wrong to me.
2) "“Gether!” it said."
The others are repetitions of the sounds she makes but not this. Is this some sort of joke that I don't get? 'Gever' or 'get her' doesn't parrot "get there".
3) Along the same lines, some of the words spoken by Argot the dog-mouse are given as if they are onomatapaiea, but not all. He doesn't hamilton the word 'Hamilton' he only says it. This seems quite inconsistent and frankly as if the author is trying just a bit too hard to be like Edward Lear.
4) Does all the jargon also have a programming meaning, I know several of the terms as computing terms but also several more as non-computing terms.
Can you tell I don't like it. I love nonsense poetry and Alice in Wonderland (the original I think has too much prattling on for kids generally however), am a fan of books like Sophie's World, but this doesn't do anything for me. I'm not the target audience though for sure.
Would you "teach cookery without a cooker" by listing ingredients? Seems very strange.
Also, few of questions on the language:
1) "and there was no one [to] tell her different."
Shouldn't this, typo aside, be "differently"? It's modifying how she was told. I see this usage a lot but it seems wrong to me.
2) "“Gether!” it said."
The others are repetitions of the sounds she makes but not this. Is this some sort of joke that I don't get? 'Gever' or 'get her' doesn't parrot "get there".
3) Along the same lines, some of the words spoken by Argot the dog-mouse are given as if they are onomatapaiea, but not all. He doesn't hamilton the word 'Hamilton' he only says it. This seems quite inconsistent and frankly as if the author is trying just a bit too hard to be like Edward Lear.
4) Does all the jargon also have a programming meaning, I know several of the terms as computing terms but also several more as non-computing terms.
Can you tell I don't like it. I love nonsense poetry and Alice in Wonderland (the original I think has too much prattling on for kids generally however), am a fan of books like Sophie's World, but this doesn't do anything for me. I'm not the target audience though for sure.