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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by jkaptur on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @01:50PM (#13600895)
I didn't get a lot out of GEB, but I pored over Metamagical Themas [0]. It was perfect for a teenager just learning programming. The bite-sized nature of it makes it extremely approachable - perhaps a case of constraints (periodic column of N words) leading to more creative output.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Metamagical-Themas-Questing-Essence-P...

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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by aalhour on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:29PM (#13602305)
How is Metamagical Schemas bit-sized? It is 850 pages long!
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Re:The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow by perhonen on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:52PM (#13602504)
It's a collection of articles, not a single text.
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