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Are all their books really that good though? The Rust book is excellent (I ended up buying a paper edition) but a the few others I skimmed a few years ago were
by overkalix 7y ago
Are all their books really that good though? The Rust book is excellent (I ended up buying a paper edition) but a the few others I skimmed a few years ago were extremely average (some of them are included in the bundle).
- steveklabnik 7y agoPart of why I wanted to work with No Starch on TRPL was that I enjoyed several of their other books. I can’t vouch for all of them, of course, but they’re generally high quality. And they’re good to authors too; that matters to me, and not just as an author.
- tcbasche 7y agoYeah I've found them to be of mixed quality. Mainly they're just high-level overviews, which I guess is fine as a primer (and for the price!)
- phaus 7y agoIf you're into security books there's no better publisher than No Starch. For programming books, they do lean heavily towards beginners, but you can say that about every publisher. No Starch has a higher percentage of above average and even excellent books than any other publisher I'm aware of. Some are mediocre, but for most publishers 90% of what they put out is mediocre. They have a few great books on low-level programming IMO. They are introductions to that topic but they are topics that I wouldn't consider introductory. Learn you a Haskell and Clojure for the Brave and True are both No Starch. They just don't have the typical No Starch cover.