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Check it out, the book Plip-Plop-Pond is #56 in Amazon Best-sellers under the Computer Programming Category.
What are you devs reading out there? 
Amazon Best Sellers: Best Computer Programming[^]
Edit
Wait, it fell to #66 now. Hmm...
modified 22-Nov-16 14:31pm.
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An existing review, with minor edits:
I'm aware of the importance of introducing the concept of programming early on to get little ones prepared for coding one day and to teach them that static typing is enjoyable. For junior devs, that means getting them used to feeling types (sometimes tasting, it can be hard to get them not to do that and it's how they explore), holding them and encouraging them to look at the pictures of compiler errors.
Marc
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Yes, everyone should be learning the newest programming language : plip-plop.
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Nice find. It would have taken forever to find (read: guess) the key:value pair.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Isn't that morbid a bit that what makes your wonderful is falling back to Win 8 from Win 10... I'm sure Microsoft just as happy as you are 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So, which bit takes me to Win7?
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Going back from winio to anything is an improvement -- even win 3.11 or pencil & paper!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I submitted my Christmas wish list to SWMBO today.
It's a short, but expensive list. I wanna put a 671 blower on my car. Approximate cost - $8700.
An alternative (also submitted) is new underwear.
I wonder which one she'll pick.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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671 Blower: $8700
Underwear: $40
Hmm...
Get ready for new underpants!
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I say JSOP's getting $8700 worth of underwear this Christmas.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: 671 Blower: $8700
Underwear: $40
... what happens next: priceless.
(dun forget your mastercard)
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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Are you building the last of the V8s?
If you get a blower, everyone will need new underwear.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: If you get a blower, everyone will need new underwear.
I'd be lyin' if I said that wasn't the desired effect.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: SWMBO
You're married to Ursula Andress?
Or are you more the Rumpole type?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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She Who Must Be Obeyed
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yup.
From H. Rider Haggard's "She: A History of Adventure" (initially serialised in some penny dreadful or another). Played by Ursula Andress in the movie She[^].
And the only thing we get to learn about Rumpole of the Bailey's[^] wife.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Ursula Andress
Haha - there are very few here who'll know who she is!
Mark_Wallace wrote: Rumpole
I'm pretty sure JSOP is nothing like Rumpole!
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: there are very few here who'll know who she is!
I could scan some images from this magazine for they who want more information... 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Haha - there are very few here who'll know who she is!
But once they find out, I doubt there are many who'll forget -- I mean, she was the first Bond girl, for Heaven's sake!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And the best one! 
Nobody can forget Ursula Undress underneath the mango tree... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Haha - there are very few here who'll know who she is!
I beg to differ. It's my impression that the age average of this forum is quite high. I'm sure the majority of regulars will have had a poster of her on his boy room wall... 
Now Rumpole on the other hand... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I'm too young to have had a poster of Ursula Andress on my wall. 
Rumpole, OTOH, reads a lot better than he looks. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I think after she sees $8700, she will need new underwear and you can have the ones she used to have.
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