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Very cool — at first glance these docs are great. How are they generated?
by feifan 9y ago
Very cool — at first glance these docs are great. How are they generated?
- hmwhy 9y agoIf you go to the bottom of the page for any book (well, I only sampled a few so "any" may be exaggerated), it says: "The [LANGUAGE] Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow."
- feifan 9y agoAh that makes sense. I glossed over "Documentation" originally, so I thought it was somehow cleaned up from vanilla Stack Overflow answers. Was wondering how that cleanup got done
- evilstapler 9y agoThe Huffman coding example page shown for "Algorithms Notes for Professionals" is paraphrased from the classic textbook "Introduction to Algorithms", or CLR as it is often called. The tree diagrams on p. 54 of "Algorithms Notes for Professionals" are pirated directly from CLR -- p. 339 of my 2000 printing, but it may differ in later editions -- and the text is similar (CLR p. 338: "This method requires 300,000 bits to code the entire file. Can we do better?" Notes for Professionals p. 54: "This method requires 300,000 bits to code the entire file. Now the question is, can we do better?". I suppose they hired people in low cost-of-living countries to find the relevant reference materials and paraphrase them.