Comments on: Learn Physics At Home https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/ Fri, 01 May 2009 18:06:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Beastlyone https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534961 Fri, 01 May 2009 18:06:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534961 Dropped link: http://nostarch.com/mg_physics.htm

]]> By: Beastlyone https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534960 Fri, 01 May 2009 18:05:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534960 Dorid, they might find this one more interesting/amusing.

]]> By: ppnl https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534959 Fri, 01 May 2009 10:00:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534959 I hate hate hate the headfirst books. To be fair the only one I’ve tried is headfirst Java. But the material was presented in a random haphazard way that seemed designed to appeal to people with an attention deficit disorder.

In any programming language there is a very large number of details that you have to remember. These details have to be presented in an orderly way so that you can learn them, learn how they relate to each other and know where to look up what you have misremembered. The structure (or lack of it) of the headfirst books pretty much makes it impossible to look up anything.

]]> By: Todd https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534958 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:15:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534958 Isn’t AP Physics B the one without calculus? Not really physics, is it?

]]> By: Dorid https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534957 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:37:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534957 I’m going to have to pick this up for my kids. I’m trying to tell them AP physics isn’t too ambitious for them in a couple years.

]]> By: Brent https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534956 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:21:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/04/30/learn-physics-at-home/#comment-534956 My experience with the Head First books in software development is that they are an -excellent- source for beginners. Not really for anything beyond that.

For example the SQL book is fantastic for the basics of SQL, everything that M(icrosoft)SQL, MySQL and Oracle have in common – but not what sets them apart from each other.

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