I have looked through many books on Flutter. Many are written like a reference where Flutter widgets are listed followed by a description of all the properties and methods. Such books make it difficult to even get interested in Flutter, let alone program in it. Then there are books that do better by showing a group of related widgets with sample code that uses them. But that code block often fills more than a page and the explanation that follows is verbose. It can quickly become confusing and tiring to keep up with. 

 

 

The book "Beginning Flutter" is different. It introduces concepts to you in a logical order and there is a try-it-out block after each concept that instructs you to code little-by-little with a top-down approach, for example explaining why you are adding a new child widget and what it will do. I like this approach which is followed in all the chapters. I can see that for Flutter and its widgets, somehow the top-down approach to introduce code works better as compared to the traditional bottom-up approach. 

 

Then there are new concepts that the book explains well. For example, I was not familiar with mixin and could not understand the term as described in another Flutter book. But I got the concept of mixin alright in this book.