I’m “subtweeting” here and not citing the author (don’t want a pile on or whip lash) but the following I really disagree with:
“30 years ago, learning to program was mostly with books. These days it's hard to read books but YouTube and other platforms are the way to go. 😳”
“30 years ago, learning to program was mostly with books. These days it's hard to read books but YouTube and other platforms are the way to go. 😳”
@RogerBW certainly the ratio of decent tech books to crap was very poor. And those that stood the test of time to those which quickly became redundant, perhaps an even worse ratio. (I remember buying a book on Ruby on Rails once, and the very first “hello world” example was broken within a year)
@rivets I find it really hard to consume video content. I keep planning to look at auto screenshot/transcribe services (I posit they exist) but haven’t got around to it. Perhaps a valid application of LLMs! Bonus points if they could skip over sponsored content.
@rivets can you think of good examples of CS books that have stood the test of time? Knuth’s don’t count since nobody reads them. I think maybe pragmatic programmer, that MS one (code complete?); K&R C; the Steven’s book? Dragon book or surely there’s modern innovations in that space since; design patterns or is that anathema now? SICP