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Programming Notes for Professionals books
- sarreph 9y agoWhat an amazing initiative — not least because they're providing something consumable for offline. Does anyone have any knowledge on the quality of this material? I'd love to dive into quite a few of them where I have surface-knowledge...
- SBCRec 9y agoI agree, I sometimes print to PDF stack overflow threads, now we have some PDFS! Thanks for the link.
- memco 9y agoFrom a cursory glance at the BASH one it seems pretty well organized and thorough. It is not overloaded with information, but gives a good overview of what's possible. Some specific things I noticed in the BASH book: it says this about cp: > -a … Combines the d, p and r options But it doesn't show what -r means. It could benefit from better discussion of using if without brackets with [] and with [[]]-It discusses them, but I wish it gave better insight on when to use them. All in all, very handy reference material and I will be grabbing a few more to have on hand.
- bewuethr 9y agoAs somebody who contributed quite a bit to Bash Stack Overflow documentation, I have to say that I consider it a total train wreck. Before (or rather, instead of) touching this, I highly recommend reading something like the BashGuide (http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide) for anybody who looks to get started with Bash. Even later, as a reference, SO Documentation isn't that useful, in my opinion.
- jack6e 9y agoAgreed, this is incredible - especially to have something that can be perused in physical format. Looking through some of the examples for the languages I know well enough to judge, these seem to be good quality. As a simple case in point, for how to open a file in Python they only show using a context manager. Even though you can easily read files without that, it is the better, safer, perhaps slightly-more-intermediate-level option and also makes a person more familiar with context managers in general. So it is nice to see best practices presented as the defaults.
- sarreph 9y agoThanks! Python is one of the ones I'm going to check out so that example makes me feel confident about using this as a resource :)
- agentultra 9y agoFrom a look at the Haskell one... the pedagogy is non-existent so I think the "for professionals" label is apt. The content is not in a sensible order or anything like that: it is merely compiled as a topic by chapter. The nice thing is the formatting and links to an online REPL where you can play with the code samples. I think it will be a handy reference material.
- black_puppydog 9y agoThis could use some explanation on the "from Stack Overflow" bit. How is GoalKicker related to SO?
- jonsagara 9y agoFrom the bottom of http://books.goalkicker.com/DotNETFrameworkBook/ http://books.goalkicker.com/DotNETFrameworkBook/ : "The .NET Framework Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA. See credits at the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be copyright of their respective owners unless otherwise specified Book created for educational purposes and is not affiliated with .NET Framework group(s), company(s) nor Stack Overflow. All trademarks belong to their respective company owners"
- pgt 9y agoBeat me to it :)
- pgt 9y agoSeems to be unrelated. GoalKicker is transforming SO data and publishing it under the same Creative Commons BY-SA licence. From the footer of one of the books: The .NET Framework Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA. See credits at the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be copyright of their respective owners unless otherwise specified Book created for educational purposes and is not affiliated with .NET Framework group(s), company(s) nor Stack Overflow. All trademarks belong to their respective company owners 192 pages, published on January 2018
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- kimura 9y agoWhy free? It seems like a lot of labor went into making these books.
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoThe same came be said of so many things. However, computing has a long history of sharing knowledge freely. I applaud efforts like this to keep that tradition alive.
- criddell 9y agoBecause of the license of the source material. I believe it's all originally published under one of the Creative Commons Share Alike licenses.
- outsidetheparty 9y agoI haven't compared the text to see how much editing was involved here, but based on the credits line in the books this appears to be the abandoned StackOverflow Documentation beta in PDF form? https://stackoverflow.com/documentation https://stackoverflow.com/documentation
- firefruit 9y agoWhy did StackOverflow shut it down? It was really useful.
- farresito 9y agoIt's explained in OP's link. Among other things, because people didn't really use it and stackoverflow is good enough.
- happy-go-lucky 9y ago> Why was this decision made and why now? https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-documentation https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...
- jmkni 9y agoAmazing, thankyou!
- crimsonalucard 9y agoWhy are there notes on Angular 2 and just Angular?
- wesnerm2 9y agoAngularJs is different from the completely redesigned Angular (2+).
- khuss 9y agoGreat collection. Thanks for making them available to the community.
- Dangeranger 9y agoThis is a really great effort to compile relevant answers into a narrative. Is there any way that the community can contribute to adding new resources to the list, so that the books can be updated in future releases?
- vog 9y ago> great effort to compile relevant answers into a narrative Don't confuse "StackOverflow Question&Answers" with "StackOverflow Documentation": https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/ https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/ Goalkicker "only" provided formatting and beauty. They did not reformulate tons of Q&A into a documentation - that work was already performed by the StackOverflow Community.
- Dangeranger 9y agoWait, did the Stack Overflow community compile these answers into the ordered list provided by the book? What I had assumed is that the "author" of the book hand picked these answers and arranged them together along with their chapter names into a narrative to aid understanding. Is my understanding incorrect?
- bewuethr 9y agoNo, it's "just" converting selected tags from Stack Overflow Documentation (https://stackoverflow.com/documentation https://stackoverflow.com/documentation - now shut down) into PDFs.
- mohammedri_ 9y agoAbsolutely incredible. Thanks for all the effort.
- Raphmedia 9y agoI'm tempted to print them for those moments when the internet is down and I still need to access SO.
- NuDinNou2 9y agoOr just download the pdfs to your hard disk
- tzahola 9y agoOk, but what if there's a power outage????? /s
- vog 9y agoWhy do you need to kill trees just because the internet is down?
- Raphmedia 9y agoPrint on recycled paper. No need to print anything related to programming on high quality paper. It will cost you about double the price per packs of sheets but we print so rarely it's worth filling all of your printers with them.
- vog 9y ago> No need to print anything related to programming on high quality paper Why print anything related to programming at all? What's wrong with opening the PDF on your computer and putting it side-by-side to your IDE? Isn't this more practical anyway? (Full text search, being able to copy & paste, and so on) Of course you can argue that some people prefer reading on paper over reading on a screen. But that argument would be a strawman: The original commenter said they would print this specifically for the case of a broken internet, meaning their normal behaviour is to read that stuff online, on screen.
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- Theodores 9y agoI was hoping that someone had harvested every PDF cited in SO answers and culled it down to a definitive list of most popular reference works. Now there is an idea.
- melling 9y agoSeveral years ago, I would ask StackOverFlow questions on esoteric topics like elisp, with the idea that by asking small, well-defined questions, you could eventually create enough of a trail that no topic would remain difficult to learn. For example, here are a few I could find: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2170528/writing-hello-world-in-emacs https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2170528/writing-hello-wo... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1541682/lisp-script-to-parse-csv-and-generate-html-table https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1541682/lisp-script-to-p... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264286/generating-a-quiz-in-emacs-lisp https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2264286/generating-a-qui... While books are great, something more interesting would be a little app window in your editor, where you could type (or ask Cortana, Siri, Google) “How do I declare a set”, “parse csv“, “open file for writing”, etc., and you would see small examples. The language is known by the editor so no need to include it in the query. So, for instance, if I wanted to write an F# program, which I don’t know, I could learn it on the fly. StackOverFlow has the database of knowledge by now. Now, how to get your exact answer, faster? “Siri, how do I round the corners of a view in iOS?”
- ksenzee 9y agoWhat you're describing is not unlike howdoi: https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
- robnagler 9y agogoalkicker.com is related to codeday.top afaict. They are the only two sites on Google that match some of the snippets. CodeDay is a machine translation blog which is very sophisticated. The PDFs appear to be a reorganization of those blog entries. Very interesting. Well-written by machines.
- SnowingXIV 9y agoA lot of effort went into this, I also took a look at the languages I'm familiar with. They even have screenshots of the results and provide an excellent way of showing exactly what you would input and see. I really appreciate the fact that they are pdf that you can save and don't have to rely on an internet connection.
- ndh2 9y agoIs everyone aware that this is merely a dump of "Stack Overflow Documentation" (not Stack Overflow Q/A), repackaged in PDF format ? (Also a request for bitcoin donations.) https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-documentation https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d... https://stackoverflow.com/documentation https://stackoverflow.com/documentation https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z There is no indication that these books are curated or edited.
- Nicksil 9y ago> Is everyone aware that this is merely a dump of SO documentation, repackaged in PDF format ? Yes, it's stated on each book's page.
- ndh2 9y agoTrue. However, the discussion here in this thread doesn't indicate that everyone understood that statement.
- willtim 9y agoAgreed. The Haskell version has advanced topics such as Free Monads in chapter 8 and higher-order functions in chapter 35! The author for each piece of content has also not been included, which means I have no way of knowing if the content has been authored by a computer science professor or his/her student.
- bhrgunatha 9y agoThere is a list of contributors at the end of each book, but it's only their site user name with a link to the profile.
- mangatmodi 9y agoLooked at some pages on Algorithm and Java, the content looks very relevant to current practices and it is well organised!
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- dcchambers 9y agoYou can grab all the PDFs with wget: wget --random-wait -R ".html,.png" -r goalkicker.com Or download the archive directly (Not PDF, data is in JSON format): https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z
- brogrammer2018 9y agoAlternatively you can download all from http://books.goalkicker.com/all.zip http://books.goalkicker.com/all.zip :)
- tzs 9y agoYou probably want a "--wait=?" or "-w ?" on there too, to set a non-zero wait time. The --random-wait flag just tells it to vary the wait time between 0.5 and 1.5 times the wait given by --wait. Without --wait, the wait time is zero and either --random-wait is ignored or --random-wait is applied to 0 which has the same effect. I was a little surprised by this, actually, when I tested it. I would have expected --random-wait with no --wait to either give a warning that you had included a useless option, or to have some useful non-zero default that it uses.
- kotrunga 9y agoWow. This is awesome. Thank you!
- cabalamat 9y agoNot impressed. I downloaded the python book, chose a section at random (chapter 15: dictionaries), and found an error on the first thing I looked at. The book says that: d=dict(**otherDict) only works if otherDict's keys are strings, but in reality it also works if the keys are integers: >>> dict(**{1:2,3:4}) {1: 2, 3: 4}
- tsuraan 9y agoLooks like a 2 vs 3 thing: Python 2.7.14 (default, Jan 6 2018, 14:37:03) [GCC 5.4.0] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> dict(**{1:2,3:4}) {1: 2, 3: 4} >>> vs Python 3.4.5 (default, Jan 6 2018, 14:44:12) [GCC 5.4.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> dict(**{1:2,3:4}) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: keyword arguments must be strings >>>
- happy-go-lucky 9y agoThis works in Python 3.6: >>> {**{1:2,3:4}} {1: 2, 3: 4} :)
- tomc1985 9y agoSomewhat unrelated, but hte first concern that popped into my head is how the information contained ties to specific version of its subject? Like, the Python book looks awesome but I have to use Python 2.7 day-to-day (don't ask). Are Python 2/3 stuff clearly marked?
- NSHippie 9y agoThis is why I come to HackerNews everyday to find resources like this. Thanks OP.
- Bizarro 9y agoI'd love to throw the guy a few bucks in bitcoin, but the network fee is going to cost me $11.
- Validatora 9y agoIs anyone aware of a resource which allows me to store programming documentation on .txt files? I have perused the internet but haven't found any. I am asking because I would like to view the documents within my text editor.