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Mastering App Presentation – Book Review

Mastering App Presentation, by Jane Portman, covers many ways in which you can present apps and designs.

This can take many forms, such as a design pitch, an app page on your site on an app store.

Naturally, the design pitches don't apply to me, as I sell apps. In that area, the book coverage was interesting and I feel I learned a lot of interesting angles, but I feel there were many, many places where the book would have been better if it would show me an example of the technique instead of only talking about it.

There are also some interviews with design pros, which were mostly interesting.

It is also interesting to know that the ebook was available only in PDF format, which can be much more inconvenient to read in tablets than mobi or epub.

Overall, I found it useful and a good deal, but I paid US$12 on a Dealotto sale – for full price (US$39) it would be a little expensive.

There is also an edition with PSD templates at US$99.

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Learning Python – Book Review

I read Learning Python, by Mark Lutz (5th Edition) a few months ago. Unfortunately, I just got around to reviewing it now.

Learning Python is a very long book at 1600 pages. It is safe to say that it covered everything that it should, but it feels like it is way too through and that a lot of it was spent in topics that were inadequate. For example, at times it mentioned that a topic would only be useful for tool writers.

Also, on many places it would go and cover a little bit of a more advanced topic where it was relevant. That is great if you are reading a specific section for all you need to know, but it also means a lot of repetition if you are reading the whole book in sequence.

Overall, I think it is pretty good, but the coverage and repetition make it longer than necessary.