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Every single programming book in the world after you've read the first one: Chapter 1: Simple types (um, could have done this in a page) Chapter 2: Complex ty
by mattmanser 12y ago
Every single programming book in the world after you've read the first one:
Chapter 1: Simple types (um, could have done this in a page)
Chapter 2: Complex types (this too)
Chapter 3: How you can compile from the command line (even though no-one in their sane mind does this in this language)
Chapter 4: Inheritance (oh god, please stop)
Chapter 5: Conditional statements (no, for the love of god stop)
Chapter 6: Loops (right, I'm skipping some chapters)
Chapter 15: Trangonian Complex Pulsar boofs and why you should use them for everything (even though no-one does and never will because they suck)
Chapter 16: How to make a program (this chapter should have been the entire book)
Chapter 17: How to debug (lots of hand waving and no actual details on how to actually debug the program)
Appendix: Listing every word used in the book in alphabetical order and on which pages each was mentioned.
CD: With a 3 year out of date IDE, possibly abandoned, and if you're really lucky some fairly benign malware
- noir_lord 12y agoBack in the day that was every dèlphi book to a tee.
- coliveira 12y agoIt looks like you only read Deitel & Deitel books.
- dunmalg 12y ago>Appendix: Listing every word used in the book in alphabetical order and on which pages each was mentioned. That's the Index. The Appendix is where they list FTP and web sites that are long defunct, sample code for interfacing with a discontinued piece of hardware, and of course an ASCII table.
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- Someone 12y ago"Learn x in -1 days" books follow that pattern, but original ones? Not this one: http://www.stroustrup.com/3rd_tbl.html http://www.stroustrup.com/3rd_tbl.html Or this one: http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/index.html http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/index.html Or this one: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/toc/toc.html https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/toc/toc.html Or this one: http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2010/04/table-of-contents-for-art-of-computer.html http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2010/04/table-of-contents-for-... In general, once you know a few different languages and want to learn a new one, read the language spec or a good book on the language. Good blog posts are an option, too, but those are hard to discriminate from bad ones, and run a greater risk of being incomplete (hm: here's and idea for a new product: a service that ranks blogs for accuracy, completeness and timeliness (K&R C is accurate and complete, but if you want to learn C now, it shouldn't be the only thing you read, and possibly not even a thing you read))
- mattmanser 12y agoIt was a joke.
- logicallee 12y agowho would pay $25.99-$54.99 for any of these ten pages? http://learnxinyminutes.com/ http://learnxinyminutes.com/ - the Java article is 1500 words :) and, I gather, sufficient to get started.