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I have reviewed so many technical books that were simply bad copies of the documentation. And that by authors who have written 10 books. And the (rather big) p
by k__ 6y ago
I have reviewed so many technical books that were simply bad copies of the documentation. And that by authors who have written 10 books.
And the (rather big) publisher didn't seem to care at all.
- dhosek 6y agoIn technical book publishing, the publisher is a good signal as to the quality of the contents inside. I have never seen a worthwhile book from APress. 10 books from an author of technical books is a negative signal. There's not a lot of money in writing technical books so there's an incentive to pump out books without concern for quality. I remember trying to learn C++ in the 90s and nearly every book I read was complete garbage (the authors seemed to think that C++ was C with different comment syntax and using cout << in place of printf). It wasn't until I read the first STL book that things finally clicked.
- dmlorenzetti 6y ago"Numerical Python" by Johansson was an exception for me.