Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by jbernardo95 » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:06 PM UTC

Elixir in Action by Saša Jurić

https://www.amazon.com/Elixir-Action-scaron-Juri-cacute/dp/1...

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by dump121 » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:06 PM UTC

Any such book for distributed systems?

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by kyoob » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:06 PM UTC

diminoten wrote: post #30

I dunno why, but I was kind of hoping there would be non-CS answers for this too, like how to woodwork, or like tying flies.

There was a reference to this book earlier: https://www.amazon.com/Build-Metal-Working-Scrap-Complete/dp...

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by innocentoldguy » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:11 PM UTC

I liked Take Off With Elixir, by Rob Conery. It walks you through writing a program for a fictional aerospace start-up. It also comes with a 3-hour companion video, which is good too.

https://bigmachine.io/products/take-off-with-elixir/

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by coleifer » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:13 PM UTC

I co-wrote a book on Flask that walks through the building and progressive refinement of a blog: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/learning-flask-fram...

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by carlmungz » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

Hernanpm wrote: post #17

Build Your Own AngularJS https://teropa.info/build-your-own-angular/

There needs to be more books like this, but I imagine the lack of such material is due to the effort needed to break a framework down into its smallest pieces.

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by eatonphil » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:16 PM UTC

adwhit wrote: post #21

kevinclancy wrote: post #9

Modern Compiler Implementation in ML by Andrew Appel

I second this. Build a compiler from scratch. Main annoyance is that it uses SML - most readers are likely to want to use OCaml, and it's a bit fiddly translating between the two.

There are of course the C and Java implementation books as well.

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by cpcat » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:18 PM UTC

Ray Wenderlich's online tutorials on How to Make a Game Like Candy Crush https://www.raywenderlich.com/66877/how-to-make-a-game-like-...

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by larc » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

Test Driven Development with Python (http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/) teaches you to use Django and TDD practices to create a basic list web app.

Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?

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Post by toss1941 » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:23 PM UTC

I remember seeing a C++ (Borland) book that was entirely about building a flight simulator. Google is betraying my attempts to find it though, and i'm not sure who the actual publisher was. That was during the 90's when I was 14 or something so it was a bit above my head, but I remember almost buying it anyway.

Edit: It may have been this: https://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Own-Flight-Sim/dp/15716902...