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With technical books I find it very important to actually apply them. So one technical book per year may be enough. I made good money doing C++ for more than de
by Ididntdothis 7y ago
With technical books I find it very important to actually apply them. So one technical book per year may be enough. I made good money doing C++ for more than decade and had maybe 3 books that I understood more and more over the years.
- Jtsummers 7y agoAnother thing with technical books is that you can read portions of them and interleave several books (or books + papers). I have 4 or 5 books going on at a time, and I make progress in each most weeks. Usually not all on one topic, either. And then you can mix in other readings. A chapter in a technical book may only survey its particular material, but you may want to explore the ideas further. So you go out and get some papers to read or another book. I may not finish many books in a year, but I do get a lot of reading in.
- ishyfishyy 7y agoThat's what I like about reading technical books. I have 3 books (textbooks, really) that I'm reading right now, and I don't feel like I have to finish one before picking up the other. I can read whatever I feel like reading. Even though I love fiction, I couldn't pick up a second book from Stephen King without fully finishing the first. I'd lose interest in the first one otherwise.