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I've read a couple and her books are amazingly good. I especially liked Head First Design Patterns -- I've read 4-5 books on the subject, but the Head First exa
by raducu 6y ago
I've read a couple and her books are amazingly good.
I especially liked Head First Design Patterns -- I've read 4-5 books on the subject, but the Head First examples are the ones that have stuck with me after all these years.
Her SCJP books were also exceptionally good/the gold standard as far as I remember.
- bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y agoI'm honestly surprised it was a woman behind Head First books because the aesthetic of the series (in particular, the covers featuring a cute white or asian girl looking up toward the reader supplicating pose) seemed (and seem) like a kind of sexist fan service for the same online-troll demographic that drove her out of the industry. I still think the design accommodates the industry's demographics at the time. Terrible what happened to her, but those books are embarrassing. To be fair the specific decisions around what to put on the cover may not have been hers.