Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
A chunky fragment of TDPL will hit Rough Cuts soon enough. I'm pondering
whether I should be adding exercises to the book. Some books have them,
some don't.
Pros: As I'm writing, I've come up with some pretty darn cool exercise
ideas.
Cons: The book gets larger, takes longer to write, and I never solved
the exercises in the books I've read, but then I'm just weird.
What do you think?
Depends on the exercise.
In Knuth, some of the best bits are in the exercises. But I think he was
using them as a form of compression, reducing the size of the book to
reasonable length <g>. I don't think I've bothered trying to solve the
exercises in any other textbook, except in some rare cases where the
exercise was so interesting that I really wanted to know what the answer
was. I've never done an exercise for the sake of doing an exercise. But
I'm weirder than you.
