Logica For Dummies

I like the "For Dummies" books for things I don't know fully. I skimmed this book and still refer back to it.

I read this book when I was helping a friend understand an online Logic course. I thought it was pretty good in explaining some of the initial concepts, but as the subject became more difficult, the book was less helpful.

Great introduction

I had one question I wanted clearing up and this book doesn't address it.

I originally read this from pure interest and have since completed a course in Logic within the Maths department. This book certainly prepared me well for the course although it is certainly fair to say this book deal mainly with Logic as it relates to validating inferences and doesn't deal with the Leggi tutto

This book's title is misleading. It's not really about the general field of logic as implied by its title. I would say the book is more specialized to the subfield of Theorem Proving. But "Logic for Theorem Proving for Dummies" is a bit less likely to grab people. :-P Needless to say, this is a very Leggi tutto

This was a hard book to understand. I think I do better with videos and someone talking to be explaining logic. This book just gave "A and B" or "A or B" and gave variables and didn't really give examples. Or not enough examples. Once I saw that the entire book used A, B, X or Y for this or that, it Leggi tutto

2.5 Stars