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I've started one of these, a few months ago. It worked pretty well until we picked ng-book, and interest tapered off. My observation is that if the book is too
by Cpoll 10y ago
I've started one of these, a few months ago. It worked pretty well until we picked ng-book, and interest tapered off. My observation is that if the book is too relevant to the day-job, people will just end up talking about work problems, and enthusiasm will wane.
It's also possible that purely language/framework books don't work as well. Code Complete is good because it gets people talking about architecture, general best-practices, and career mastery. ng-book only gets people talking about the framework.
To revive ours, we've discussed reading relevant articles rather than entire books.
- swanson 10y ago> It's also possible that purely language/framework books That has been my experience. The best book club discussions (we do probably 10 different groups a year for 5+ years at this point) have been for books like The Pragmatic Programmer, Rework, Lean Startup, etc -- ones that focus more on a methodology or have room for discussion about trade-offs. Framework/language specific books tend towards the reference material side of things and don't have much room for discussion. One exception is the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book -- we would work the exercises on our own and then meet together to discuss and share our solutions.