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For all those people who wonder why is the popular XYZ book not on the list: The algorithm here is to take the links to amazon and make a count of it. Plain an
by sharmi 10y ago
For all those people who wonder why is the popular XYZ book not on the list:
The algorithm here is to take the links to amazon and make a count of it. Plain and simple.
For a more popular book like SICP, it just going to mentioned by it's acronym as SICP. The expanded version of the title "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" is rarely mentioned and so is the author name. An amazon link would be almost non-existent. This is because, the book is so popular the reader needs no introduction. Unfortunately, as per the logic used for this site, it will not be accounted. The same goes for books whose multiple versions show up in the result.
This is not to put down the dev-books.com site in anyway. To do a disambiguating parser that can parse any format of title and/or author name would increase the complexity and implementation time by orders of magnitude. It would also be completely against the mantra of "Release early and often".