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Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?

A continuation of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086 which has been incredibly useful to me.

I recently finished this phenomenal book called "Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications":

https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/building-enterprise-javascript-applications

Which takes the reader from zero to building a non-trivial production fullstack application with JavaScript.

( 2 comments | 7 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by r_singh on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:36PM (#22199091)
Nand2Tetris

"...an ambitious book attempting to give you a cohesive understanding of how everything in a computer works. Each chapter involves building a small piece of the overall system, from writing elementary logic gates in HDL, through a CPU and assembler, all the way to an application the size of a Tetris game"

from https://teachyourselfcs.com

Re:Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by bu... by flyingcroissant on Friday January 31, 2020 @12:01AM (#22199214)
“Mazes for Programmers” and “The Ray Tracer Challenge” by Jamis Buck.