devishnya

In the era of internet forums, users communicated via private forum messages; home pages usually had the "Private Messages" section atop of them, displaying the unread message count. As forums were replaced with social media platforms, "Direct Messages"* became the new term, and the call to take the conversation private went from "pm me" to "dm me".

Hardly a conspiracy against privacy, though -- just a funny thing you might've noticed.

Hey guys. As years pass by, "Learn Python the Hard Way" is gradually going out of favor among beginner Python programmers. When it does get recommended, however, people are often quick to bash it without actually explaining its problems.

In this review, I attempted to outline LPTHW's issues more thoroughly -- but I'm also avoiding extreme statements like "This book is absolutely, objectively bad" because it does have some strong points.

https://blog.soshace.com/en/python/learn-python-the-hard-way-a-detailed-book-review/