I'm a co-author of the book and am a professor of CS at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (homepage: www.cs.huji.ac.il/~noam ). Hope you all like the book.
The book is just amazing! I have never learned so much with any other book. Please make more of those, I'll buy them all! Although I have to admit that it is not suited for total beginners without any help, I can only imagine how confusing it must be. I myself had some problems, but I solved them so far (I'm working on Chapter 07 now). Nice to see that you put up this forum!
Thank you, sir. And thanks also to Prof. Schoken. It is a great book, with excellent software. I wish I had a book this clear and concise for every subject I'd like to study. Best wishes to you.