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Not an Introductory Book

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Although there is an introduction for programmers, this book is not intended to be introductory. There are already lots of good introductory books out there.

You can think of it as an “intermediate” or “somewhat advanced” book, but the “somewhat” modifier is very important here. Because it is not introductory, two difficult constraints are removed.

1. In an introductory book you are forced to describe everything in lock step, never mentioning anything before it has been thoroughly introduced. That’s still a good goal, but we don’t have to agonize over it when it doesn’t happen (just cross-reference the material).
2. In addition, the topics are not restricted; in this book topics are chosen based on whether they are interesting and/or useful, not on whether they are introductory or not.

That said, people will still be coming to a topic without knowing about it and it will need to be introduced, as much as possible, as if they have never seen it before.