Re:Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier
by michaelt on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:29AM
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Given that there are five submissions by the same user, I think your finding that people are interested because there are several submissions is unwarranted.
Re:Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier
by Err_Eek on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:38AM
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Pet peeve of mine: people who recommend textbooks they haven't fully went through.
Going through Aho's Compilers and Norvig's AI takes at least one year (assuming you have a day job).
And since the author of the blog post obviously didn't read the books, he doesn't provide any pros and cons to spending that amount of time into any of them.
Re:Programming Books You Wish You Read Earlier
by glangdale on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:36AM
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This feels terribly generic - a bunch of top-sellers, with helpful blurbs that could come off the back of the books (nothing about any of the descriptions gives the impression that the person has, say, read any of the books) and equally helpful Amazon affiliate links.
The only surprise was AI for Games, which I own, but do have some trouble believing is very current a full decade after it was published.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19271766 (39 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19225964 (also 39 comments)
The reason I know there are people interested is because there are several earlier submissions without discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19254020
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19243967
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19225658
Going through Aho's Compilers and Norvig's AI takes at least one year (assuming you have a day job).
And since the author of the blog post obviously didn't read the books, he doesn't provide any pros and cons to spending that amount of time into any of them.
The only surprise was AI for Games, which I own, but do have some trouble believing is very current a full decade after it was published.
It's from 1993, I read it in 1998, but I wish I had read it in 1995.
I guarantee, if you read it now, you will wish you had read it at least 20 years ago.
Also, any Adobe Flash related books that you may have read in the last few years.