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Yes, and No. Yes, I still buy physical books to learn something new. I value being away from a screen. But I don’t buy the “Learn X” style of introductory mate
by jcpst 4y ago
Yes, and No.
Yes, I still buy physical books to learn something new. I value being away from a screen. But I don’t buy the “Learn X” style of introductory material. All that info is online.
I buy the dense deep-dives that are filled with advanced esoteric knowledge, and may take years to grok. Things that will not change much after 5-10 years. Something that I can reference and go back to over and over.
- justrudd 4y agoSame. Except the books I buy aren’t advanced :) The books I can see from my couch - Code Complete (McConnell), Transaction Processing (Gray), Algorithms (Cormen), Algorithms (Sedgwick), Starting Strength (Rippetoe), All the 5/3/1 books (Wendler), etc.
- jcpst 4y agoI would consider algorithms advanced. I’ve been programming professionally for 8+ years, and haven’t yet found a need to study algorithms. It seems like all the scenarios where I would need some scholarly algorithm knowledge have been abstracted by some library.