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>> Almost certainly if you're good at blogging, speaking, self-promotion you're not the most expert in some other field. This would explain a lot of bad progra
by bluedino 4y ago
>> Almost certainly if you're good at blogging, speaking, self-promotion you're not the most expert in some other field.
This would explain a lot of bad programming books.
- bombcar 4y agoThose can be even worse, because the publishing company is also not an expert and just wants to get a book out the door. e.g.: https://wozniak.ca/blog/2018/06/25/1/index.html https://wozniak.ca/blog/2018/06/25/1/index.html In this it is a writer who is arguably knowledgeable in one programming language (BASIC) writing a book about another (C) and getting fundamental things wrong. Being a domain expert in one even relatively close area doesn't mean it automatically applies in another.