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You know the book series 'Computers for Dummies?' It's a play on that. See also Zytrax's 'X for Rocket Scientists' which covers complicated stuff like LDAP and
by jldugger 7y ago
You know the book series 'Computers for Dummies?' It's a play on that. See also Zytrax's 'X for Rocket Scientists' which covers complicated stuff like LDAP and DNS and explains why they are the way they are.
- dredmorbius 7y agoJoe Celko's SQL for Smarties (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/joe-celkos-sql/9780128007617/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/joe-celkos-sql/97801280...) and "Learn X the Hard Way" (Python, Java, C/C++, etc.) also play on the "for idiots/dummies" motif.
- Myrmornis 7y agoI didn't even make the "for dummies" connection! The name is a huge fail but it looks like the author meant it well, perhaps someone should tell him that it comes across as intellectual elitism and exclusionary to people who perhaps feel a little insecure reading material on the internet that is associated with fancy universities and graduate schools.