Yes. We are using Stripe, a widely popular secure payment system + an SSL certificate. So unless you are being hunted by Martian spies, let’s say you can be cautiously optimistic.

Approximately 2-4 hours per chapter unless you need to revisit some parts. The further you progress, the faster you will be able to go through new code.

It depends.

If you have no use for Praat, you certainly do not need this book, however funny it may be. But you can still regift! There is nothing more precious than the gift of knowledge, is there?

If you need to learn how to program in Praat for a project, I think this book will get you throught the syntax and the logic behind the language really fast. It will definitely save you precious time.

Yes! This book requires no prior skills in programming. You will be learning the very basic notions of programming in the first chapters before you move on to building projects.

No. The Praat language is a not a full-fledged programming language. Even though Praat allows you to create a variety of real-life applications, you will not be able to create complete pieces of software. You WILL, however, have learnt some of the basic concepts of programming and you WILL have gained enough experience and confidence to move on to extensive languages such as Java, Python, C, etc. This book will allow you to tackle more complex concepts such as object-oriented programming, algorithms, modules…