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One comment about books. I feel the quality of books has gone down a lot over the last decades. When you read K&R or Stroustroup's C++ books they are well writt
by maxxxxx 8y ago
One comment about books. I feel the quality of books has gone down a lot over the last decades. When you read K&R or Stroustroup's C++ books they are well written and give you a very deep understanding of how things work and why they are that way. Most modern books I have seen have 1000 pages and are just a bunch of recipes and screenshots without deeper understanding. Even user manuals from 30 years ago are excellent compared to what we have today.
I am sure there are exceptions but they are hard to find.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoThere were plenty of crap books about 30 years ago as well, it's just they are long forgotten now.
- sixhobbits 8y agoWell it's really both. Definitely a great example of survivorship bias (we only remember the good books), but also it's so easy to publish a book these days compared to 30 years ago -- publishing is cheaper and "print-on-demand" means that tail-end publishers want quantity over quality. And publishers can do mass reachouts to potential tech authors all over the world (and they do -- if you have even a small blog with a "how to" tutorial on, you've likely been contacted by PacktPub, etc.).