Re:What Was Your First Coding Book?
by Danieru on Friday July 13, 2012 @01:28AM
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The first one I finished was The Mythical Man Month. At the time, high school, I doubted if I was good enough for programming. So I started reading through Jeff Atwood's recommended books: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/02/recommended-reading...
It was not until I came across Jeff Atwood's fizz buzz post that I started to belief I could program.
The Mythical Man Month opened up my eyes to the fundamental difficulty of programming. In contrast to the typo based difficulty I was going through at the time.
Thus between Man Month and Jeff Atwood I determined that I was capable of programming and that it would be a challenge worth pursuing.
It was not until I came across Jeff Atwood's fizz buzz post that I started to belief I could program.
The Mythical Man Month opened up my eyes to the fundamental difficulty of programming. In contrast to the typo based difficulty I was going through at the time.
Thus between Man Month and Jeff Atwood I determined that I was capable of programming and that it would be a challenge worth pursuing.