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Oh no, not another C# book ;)
Joking aside and to your question: Think about what was "dawning" on you and think about your audience.
If you want to write a book for idiots, save your time, idiots don't read books. So do you think your readers are idiots?
You are reading this, so I guess your answer was "No!". Then don't treat them like they were. No ...
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Having read a number of programing books, I think having the review section before any quizzes or exercises is very helpful. It gives me a chance to go back over what was covered in the section, and make sure I have a good grasp on the ideas of it. It's also helpful if the review section calls out any important points that the reader should be taking from ...
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The review will have different purposes - and should be written differently - for each of these places. If it is just after you have read the chapter, then it should be summing up all of the major issues in the chapter, a way of setting in your mind the critical parts, as a starter to the quiz, which should then help them to use this.
If it is after the ...
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How big is a Section? What's in it? I ask because if you can break it into sub-sections, you might have a review at the end of each sub-section, and then the quiz at the end of the whole section.
If not, I would order it:
Review of section
Exercises with answers at the end of the section (to give the
student a chance to practice)
Quiz (with answers at ...
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