Re:Free Programming Books
by hf on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @06:16AM
(#7558529)
A fine, curated list.
As with most meta-topical lists, there is virtually
no profit in browsing through it. Time may be wasted
a-plenty, though.
Bring a question about technology X with you, go straight
to section X and then consult with the search engine of
your choice (or a hacker friend, idealy) which book to
actually read.
Hint: some of those have wikipedia-pages, like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-Order_Perl
and others hide the books behind an email
signup front
(one is a strong signal for quality, the other, perhaps,
not so much).
Re:Free Programming Books
by rgrau on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @01:02PM
(#7560588)
Totally agree,
Btw, HOP is coming just after SICP in my favourites. Great that you mentioned it :). It's great way of seeing same concepts applied to more day to day stuff like html parsing, walking directories, or regexps.
As with most meta-topical lists, there is virtually no profit in browsing through it. Time may be wasted a-plenty, though.
Bring a question about technology X with you, go straight to section X and then consult with the search engine of your choice (or a hacker friend, idealy) which book to actually read.
Hint: some of those have wikipedia-pages, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-Order_Perl and others hide the books behind an email signup front (one is a strong signal for quality, the other, perhaps, not so much).