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You still appear to be advertising a specific book selling website instead of recommending books like OP asked for.

by gpvos 3y ago

turtleyacht 3y ago
Mm, okay. ThriftBooks is my go-to for used books, because I first discovered them through Internet Archive. However, IA's partnership is with Better World Books, (BWB) which is a completely different site. Checking orders, there was a switch from BWB to ThriftBooks. I don't know how the switch happened, but you'd think I would notice when receipts stopped having anthropomorphized messages. So, I'm not able to link IA with ThriftBooks, unless OpenLibrary linked them and I happened to stick with them after the first real delivery. (Or, maybe ThriftBooks happened to have better inventory at the time.) > advertising With the above as context--well, it worked for me. Classics one or two orders of magnitude cheaper is a good deal. That brings us to > recommending books Hard to say¹ without more context. First, I'll add a constraint: don't get only one book priced at 100 euro, especially since many books in this thread are inarguably valuable for much less. Then really, what OP can afford is a collection of books. Then, there is no "one best" book. For the sheer number of exercises, can't go wrong with Deitel & Deitel How to Program series: Java, C, C++, or Python. I know folks will scream, but without much more to go on, there's enough material to get solid on fundamentals. It's not the best book on CS, but it's one of the best to get started. The way OP mentions "circle of interest" makes me assume they have some knowledge of things, so let's skip Data Structures & Algorithms, and head straight to electives: operating systems, databases, advanced algorithms, functional programming, software engineering, networking, assembly, etc. The solution here is to buy multiple books from the suggested ones in this thread, where the books * are not already available for free * are used books Along with the consideration for book bundles from Humble Bundle, where past publishers have included Pragmatic Programmer, Manning, Mercury, O'Reilly, Packt, Apress, Wiley, and No Starch Press. But that would only likely be available after converting from Amazon to a generic gift card. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566229

You still appear to be advertising a specific book selling website instead of recommending books like OP asked for.

by gpvos 3y ago

You still appear to be advertising a specific book selling website instead of recommending books like OP asked for.

Mm, okay. ThriftBooks is my go-to for used books, because I first discovered them through Internet Archive. However, IA's partnership is with Better World Books, (BWB) which is a completely different site. Checking orders, there was a switch from BWB to ThriftBooks. I don't know how the switch happened, but you'd think I would notice when receipts stopped having anthropomorphized messages. So, I'm not able to link IA with ThriftBooks, unless OpenLibrary linked them and I happened to stick with them after the first real delivery. (Or, maybe ThriftBooks happened to have better inventory at the time.) > advertising With the above as context--well, it worked for me. Classics one or two orders of magnitude cheaper is a good deal. That brings us to > recommending books Hard to say¹ without more context. First, I'll add a constraint: don't get only one book priced at 100 euro, especially since many books in this thread are inarguably valuable for much less. Then really, what OP can afford is a collection of books. Then, there is no "one best" book. For the sheer number of exercises, can't go wrong with Deitel & Deitel How to Program series: Java, C, C++, or Python. I know folks will scream, but without much more to go on, there's enough material to get solid on fundamentals. It's not the best book on CS, but it's one of the best to get started. The way OP mentions "circle of interest" makes me assume they have some knowledge of things, so let's skip Data Structures & Algorithms, and head straight to electives: operating systems, databases, advanced algorithms, functional programming, software engineering, networking, assembly, etc. The solution here is to buy multiple books from the suggested ones in this thread, where the books * are not already available for free * are used books Along with the consideration for book bundles from Humble Bundle, where past publishers have included Pragmatic Programmer, Manning, Mercury, O'Reilly, Packt, Apress, Wiley, and No Starch Press. But that would only likely be available after converting from Amazon to a generic gift card. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566229