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>You can read hundred different programming books but none of the theory books will teach you more than just the syntax of the language/ programming paradigm.
by ekr 12y ago
>You can read hundred different programming books but none of the theory books will teach you more than just the syntax of the language/ programming paradigm.
Huh? That's not true. I wouldn't call a book that teaches you a programming language a programming book. Art of Computer Programming is a programming book, and I guarantee that you'll learn more than just a programming language from it. Or Introduction to Algorithms. Or books about operating systems, or computer graphics. These are all programming books.
- thewhitetulip 12y agoOkay then don't call them a programming book, call them a language book. What I had meant to say was that just reading a python book won't make you a programmer, it goes in the same way about any other definition of programming books you may call, one has to practice to gain perfection regardless of which books are called programming ones and which ones aren't.