Ask HN: Do you still buy physical tech books like “Learn Rust” or “Learn Go”?

Re:Ask HN: Do you still buy physical tech books like “Learn ... by frizlab on Sunday September 18, 2022 @01:14PM (#32889326)

I don’t buy tech books. Ever. If I want to learn a language I’ll go straight to code (find any simple project to do with it).

It’s my way of doing it. Might not be the best, but it works for me.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still buy physical tech books like “Learn ... by arcticadder on Sunday September 18, 2022 @01:38PM (#32889556)

There's "tech" beyond programming languages - for example, computer networks.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still buy physical tech books like “Learn ... by dangarbri3 on Sunday September 18, 2022 @01:20PM (#32889395)

Same here, books on specific technologies are useless to me because you can learn more from the official manuals and playing with it than from someone else's interpretation of it X versions ago.

The tech books I do get are more meta, books about programming in general or design in general, things that you can't just find in a manual.

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