Most information is useful. Slightly disorganized, which causes a very slow read.

Overall the book presents all the information you need to start using make - which is a lot of information. However, the writing style used when he's presenting sections that are supposed to be "follow along", leave a lot of holes and become tedious to figure out.

There's also a lot of "but we'll touch on that later" - which puts you in the position of having to read through a part, knowing that he'll explain something better later in the book, which will for the moment, leave you wondering what it is he's talking about. Unfortunately he does this a lot, even right in the middle of a follow along example. Arg.

I give it three stars because there aren't any other make books on make. This book does cover a lot of information and will definitely help you get started with make. Just don't expect to breeze through it without re-reading pieces of it 5 or 6 times. And definitely make sure you look at the errata for corrections.

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• Most information is useful. Slightly disorganized, which causes a very slow read.