Show HN: The Super Programmer – A colorful introduction to engineering

Posted by keyvank on Thursday February 01, 2024 @04:24PM
from the show-hn dept.

I have started writing an unusual book discussing various topics in computer science by implementing them from scratch. I would like to know your opinion on it! WARNING: It's a very draft version of it!

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Re:Show HN: The Super Programmer – A colorful introduction t... by jseliger on Thursday February 01, 2024 @06:06PM (#39222797)

It's fun, but I'd love an easy .mobi / .epub download, for reading on a Kindle.

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Re:Show HN: The Super Programmer – A colorful introduction t... by keyvank on Thursday February 01, 2024 @06:46PM (#39223138)

try "make epub" :)

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Re:Show HN: The Super Programmer – A colorful introduction t... by OliverWich on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:59AM (#39226260)

Yes absolutely! Unfortunately all tools I've tried so far completely mangled either the code blocks/tables, the chapters in general or simply everything :D No matter if its PDF -> epub or straight website -> epub. Does anyone have something working?

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Re:Show HN: The Super Programmer – A colorful introduction t... by keyvank on Friday February 02, 2024 @03:33AM (#39226478)

Have you tried the epub target of the Makefile in the repo? https://github.com/keyvank/tsp

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Re:Show HN: The Super Programmer – A colorful introduction t... by OliverWich on Friday February 02, 2024 @04:12AM (#39226728)

Nope, completely overlooked that. Thanks!

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Re:Show HN: The Super Programmer – A colorful introduction t... by OliverWich on Friday February 02, 2024 @06:26AM (#39227480)

Unfortunately mathjax_conv.py is missing so `make epub` fails...

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Re:Show HN: The Super Programmer – A colorful introduction t... by keyvank on Friday February 02, 2024 @08:58AM (#39228555)

Oops, missed that! It should be there now.

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Re:Show HN: The Super Programmer – A colorful introduction t... by OliverWich on Friday February 02, 2024 @11:23AM (#39230471)

Thanks, it works now! But the tables are still broken (e.g. in the "Wires" chapter)

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Re:Show HN: The Super Programmer – A colorful introduction t... by keyvank on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:00PM (#39231897)

Ah yeah working on it. Hope you’ll like it!

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Re:Show HN: The Super Programmer – A colorful introduction t... by quickthrower2 on Thursday February 01, 2024 @05:21PM (#39222261)

For mobile phone users: the link is the book, and the book TOC is in the hamburger menu.

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