Re:Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers?
by ziyao_w on Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:25PM
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Finally picked up Strunk and White after years of procrastination and so far it has been a tour-de-force consolidating/spelling out the knowledge I picked up along the way (ESL). I found mentally swapping out words about writing for words about programming to be fun.
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Re:Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers?
by undecidabot on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:35PM
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Brian Kernighan (the K in K&R and AWK) also wrote a similar book
with P. J. Plauger called "The Elements of Programming Style" [1].
There's even a talk by him about it online (2009) [2].
Kernighan also co-authored a (imo) really great book with Rob Pike (once an assistant of Penn & Teller [3]) called "The Practice of Programming" [4]. Unfortunately, this one is a bit over the 200 page limit.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Programming_St...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUkrR7ZfTA
[3] https://youtu.be/z4iVAcYyWN0?t=180
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming
Re:Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers?
by Alex63 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @09:54PM
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Not as thin, but you might find Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style interesting as a follow-up to S&W.