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The Imposter's Handbook
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#12Anyone knows if there will be a hardcopy available? I live a paper free live, except for books, I just hate reading from a screen...
From the "Questions" section:
Will there be a print version?
That's my goal, yes. I want to be sure all the edits are made and, technically-speaking, the book is completed. If I do end up with a paper edition, I'll send out a note to the mailing list in late September, early October.
edit: Formatting.
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#13I have a degree in CS and I've never found myself in a situation where anyone would discuss bouble sort vs merge sort. Neither have I been in a situation where big-o was relevant beyond the basic concept of not doing obviously stupid shit.
What you've really missed is things like best practices, design patterns and concepts like SOLID, but a lot of people with CS degrees missed some of those as well.
If the book covers this, excellent, but why wouldn't it sell itself on valid points?
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#14Proofreading error near the 'buy' button.
> I've learned more in this last year since I started programming over 25 years ago.
Should be '... this last year than since ...'
Personally, I think '... the past year than since ...' reads better also.
Do I get a free copy of the book for pointing that out? ;)
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#15Where is the ToC ?
I didn't find it online either, but did just pick up the book. This is ToC of pre-release #2 (~500 pages): http://i.imgur.com/ssYr5ki.png
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#16Anybody else vaguely reminded of The Fountainhead's cover: http://www.steinerag.com/flw/Book%20Images/Fountainhead1994.... For some reason the combination of "imposter" and the colors evoked memories of an old paperback.
The cover actually appears to be one of the jpl "visions of the future" posters.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/images/superea...
I hope the author has permission to use it?
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#17What programming language is generally used throughout the book?
C# & Javascript/Node. You can find the sample code from projects in the book here: https://github.com/imposters-handbook/sample-code/
For C# I recently found this course, looks pretty good: http://www.brpreiss.com/books/opus6/html/page10.html
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#18The main thing people miss out on not having a degree is not getting past silly HR "must have degree" filtration.
Never once found a CS degree a worthwhile indicator of ability.
It may be a superb book, but not even giving a sample chapter out to judge writing style, quality of explanations, depth and so on?
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#19Can anyone personally recommend it? It looks like a good investment!
Bought it. Pretty basic stuffs:
- Didn't learn anything new from Linux chapter.
- Data Structures and Algorithms chapter is too basic. There is not even any implementation provided. I thought it didn't offer anything more than you could find on Wikipedia if you add some illustration done with Paper by 53 app. I'd recommend "Grokking Algorithms" by Aditya Bhargava for this topic if you want illustrated explanations with brilliant examples.
- Didn't learn anything new from Databases chapter.
- Didn't learn anything new from Programming Languages chapter. Inclusion of useless things like TIOBE Index made me furious, honestly.
- Didn't learn anything new from Software Design chapter.
I won't recommend this book to anyone working in software engineering for more or less 5 years with or without CS degree. This book merely serves as an index of what you'll encounter in the field, nothing more than that. Not even any good elaborations on those topics. Pretty meh.
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#20I have a degree in CS and I've never found myself in a situation where anyone would discuss bouble sort vs merge sort. Neither have I been in a situation where big-o was relevant beyond the basic concept of not doing obviously stupid shit. What you've really missed is things like best practices, design patterns and concepts like SOLID, but a lot of people with CS degrees missed some of those as well. If the book cove…
I have no degree in CS and I see these terms (Big O, np vs p, etc) regularly, mostly here on HN. No idea what they mean, this books sounds great to me.