This was the book that I used for my first complex variables course as an undergraduate, and I still turn back to it for practice.
Unlike a complex analysis book, or even more typical complex variables book, the focus is really not on the theory. Learning how to prove theorems is not the point of the book, so each section does give a rundown of what the relevant theorems, state and examples of how to use them before giving a whole bunch of problems to practice on.
The professor of that class was extremely focused on problem solving techniques over understanding much beyond how to extend things like line integrals and geometric series to solving problems. When I retook the course for a refresher before beginning my analysis sequencing graduate school, I didn't find myself at much of a loss at all when it came to the theory. Part of the reason is that I had another terrific for professor, but part of the reason is also that I had already learned how to do the problems. It's a good approach, along the same vein as how we teach students calculus before we teach them analysis: having a basic familiarity with how the problems works helps to understand what the theorems actually do, which it easier for me to understand what was going on in the proofs.
I would not recommend this book to learn the subject for the first time, necessarily, at least not without lecture notes to assist. However, it's excellent as a refresher and as a tool for studying, not only because it gives you a localized list of important theorems and examples of how they are applied, but because there are just so many problems to do.
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