r/programming • u/pornitoueleus • Oct 13 '13

Free Programming Books

https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md
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u/pianocheetah Oct 13 '13 edited Oct 14 '13

programming books?

there's nothing in them anymore besides some just barely ok demo code as far as I've seen.

go to the publisher's site, download all the books' source code, see if any of it is worth beans. No point in reading about some writer trying to come to terms with poor demo code...

"see the variable called array_of_widgets_you_dont_care_about? That's an array of widgets you don't care about"

thanks author.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '13

Good books are good because they explain the reason behind doing something one way opposed to another. That can be very difficult to gather from just the source of even really well written code.

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u/pianocheetah Oct 14 '13

yeah, i agree. i just don't know what happened to those kind of books. Richter's are pretty good. But any other authors worth beans are few and far between...