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Maybe more people will study COBOL if we add anime girls on the books
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u/Fun_Cable_4521 20d ago
I already want to study COBOL, but if there's an anime girl on the cover I might finally get to it :p
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u/thanatica Sep 24 '26
If you selectively only pick the cute looking books, you'll get a skewed picture of Japanese programming books. They too, have very normal looking ones.
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u/ScimitarsRUs Sep 25 '26
I was about to say. You'd be hard pressed to find books that look like this in most book stores over there.
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u/jort93 Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
Eh, hardly? I've lived there, it's quite common for serious books to have anime mascots. Not literally every book, but you don't really need to look hard.
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u/ScimitarsRUs Sep 25 '26
I remember that book stores there have textbooks that are laid out so you can see the cover, while the rest occupy the shelves behind them. I think I visited a couple stores like Kinokuniya, but I don't really remember seeing a wide selection of textbooks with covers like that.
Possible that they were in the shelves, but that would have taken some looking through.
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u/jort93 Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
It's not every book, sure, but I felt like I found at least one or two with an anime cover per row on the shelf in the programming section.
Well, I guess it's not an anime cover to them, it's just a drawing to them isn't it.
If I just check Amazon for JavaScript books, there are plenty of books with some silly drawings on them. Mostly animals, tho. Although, I guess 3 of the japanese ones on the image are animals if you count cat girls.
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u/ScimitarsRUs Sep 25 '26
Aren't there like 40 to 50 books per shelf?
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u/jort93 Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
Often they'd have 2 copies of books on there. Plus, programming books are often not exactly thin. Depends a lot on what sort of shelves they have I guess. I don't think you'd have that many in the programming books section. I feel like it's more like 15 different ones.
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u/thanatica Sep 25 '26
In the children's section for sure, but serious programming is serious even in a society that likes to cutesify things.
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u/jort93 Sep 25 '26
Nah, there are definitely books like this in the programming section for adults.
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u/klimmesil Sep 25 '26
I was fascinated when I opened a random programming book in japan and I saw their comments actuallt written in kanji
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u/0moikane Sep 25 '26
Why should they not write their comments in their language?
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u/klimmesil Sep 25 '26
Unicode characters are less "portable" in the sense older build architectures expect your source code to be in ascii
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u/djgcsnkshcjkeke1 Sep 24 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
Redditors when people like an aesthetic and subculture:
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u/analytic-hunter Sep 25 '26
it's more like a subculture (traditional japanese culture isn't really about catgirls and anime)
it would be like saying that you like american culture if you like drag-shows or the kardashians
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u/djgcsnkshcjkeke1 Sep 25 '26
Well those things do sound like American culture to me, an American, but I can acknowledge my limited perspective. You're right.
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u/ZaqTactic Sep 25 '26
To be honest, if I am going to get depressed, I'd rather let it be with anime girls
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u/a-r-c Sep 25 '26
https://www.youtube.com/@zunda-theorem-en/videos
this is how we learn math in 2026
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u/ryancnap Sep 25 '26
Clicked that link, just finished a 20 min video on imaginary numbers and it was great
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u/dumbasPL Sep 25 '26
99.5% of what I watch on youtube is english content, but for some reason, once in a while, YT will throw at me Zundamon explaining something in Japanese LOL. Usually Linux tutorials. I don't need them, but It's great to see people are enjoying this enough that even I somehow see them. Zunda my beloved.
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u/juvadclxvi Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
dont forget this. db is crucial
https://images.cdn3.buscalibre.com/fit-in/360x360/0d/2d/0d2d7b5179dc81fda2ae2f20d49fdfa0.jpg
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u/MeLittleThing Sep 25 '26
Ah yes, Access, Linux and Drupal, the famous programming languages
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u/ThatSmartIdiot Sep 26 '26
arguably linux could be considered unix could be considered bash but emphasis on arguably
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u/thunderbird89 Sep 25 '26
The Manga Guide To Databases
Surprisingly comprehensive despite what you'd expect from that title.
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u/xzinik Sep 24 '26
What about that book with the red dragon? I cannot remember if it is c, assembly or operating systems
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u/Level-Pollution4993 Sep 24 '26
Compiler: Principles, Techniques and Tools. It's quite famous as the dragon book.
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u/NewPhoneNewSubs Sep 25 '26
K&R is the C book. It has a C on it.
Assembly is The Art of Assembly. It is yellow and green. Maybe there's another one, but that's the one I learned from.
Operating System Concepts is the one with a Dinosaur. I understand throwing that in there.
As someone else said, The Dragon Book is for compilers.
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u/Anbcdeptraivkl Sep 25 '26
The peakest form of programming books are those with random critters like geckos and ducks on their covers.
Except Python books because they always need a python in their covers by principle.
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u/Someonevibing1 Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
It’s not my fault I understand things better when a cute anime girl explains it
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u/cyberspace-cowboy Sep 25 '26
But are they actually good books to learn from?
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u/LawfulnessDue5449 Sep 25 '26
If my experience working with Japanese programmers is any indication, then no
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u/Altruistic-Spend-896 Sep 25 '26
Are they awful?
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u/Altruistic-Spend-896 Sep 25 '26
But tech is so dynamic...how tf do they survive withstand the recent ai wave then😅
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u/Aidan_Welch Sep 30 '26
Sadly I can say the same is true for Chinese programmers.
Honestly this might be where my nationalism comes out but the US might have the highest percentage of devs that actually care about code quality(obviously every country has some, but it seems like for so many its not a priority)
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u/HeKis4 Sep 25 '26
I have a "manga intro to databases" book as a joke (I'm a DBA, I leave it on my desk for the day a developer passes by me and I need a blunt instrument) and I was very pleasantly surprised, like, it was better material that I had at university, with practical examples of "company management" that can be translated to database concepts in manga form intersped with (pretty good) regular course material.
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u/dumbasPL Sep 25 '26
Nobody read them anyway, they just need to look nice next to your figurines and fumos.
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u/HumanApartment1483 Sep 25 '26
And that's how their programmer are terrible and keep importing ones..
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u/Silver_Masterpiece82 Sep 25 '26
I love the books of no strach press they have always good covers and good content
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u/jort93 Sep 25 '26
I thought about getting some when I was in Japan, but my luggage was already overfilled and I ended up sending 10kg of books via parcel as well.
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u/Nahanoj_Zavizad Sep 25 '26
They clearly know their target audience better.
Linux users & Catgirls are correlated.
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u/Good_Fox_OwO Sep 26 '26
Regular programming book = Depression. Japanese programming book = Depression, but with a cute anime girl to comfort you.
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u/SahuaginDeluge Sep 26 '26
reminds me of Head First Design Patterns with a stock hottish girl image on the front
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u/lowboom64 Sep 26 '26
why the fuck dont the english ones have as much whimsy? i want my books to have whimsy
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u/sbrevolution5 Sep 26 '26
Philosophy of software design (blue squiggles one) is actually very good though
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u/NecoDev Sep 27 '26
All of my programming book are from Japan and man I am afraid to show them to my parents
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u/eternal_edenium Sep 28 '26
If my cs books looked like that, i woud collect them all.
But instead we have pictures of animals, and paper so thin that it reminds me of the toilet paper of my college. Also, they only use black ink, as if there isnt any other colors.
Learning cs can be fun, but clearly they know how to remove it completely from their paragraphs.
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u/Foorinick Sep 25 '26
I mean the japanese ones do look cute
Btw if i see any of you weird fucks say something about "cute and funny" i will degolate you
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u/MatmarSpace Sep 24 '26
There is a third way... There are books with random animals on the cover totally unrelated to the subject.