Linux From Scratch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/
Goes through building a Linux system from the ground up, and gives a pretty thorough overview of why everything is working the way that it is.
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Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#92Wondering why no one mentioned, LFS :)
It's not directly about building something in a concrete programming language but it's about build your own linux system.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#93Linux From Scratch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ Goes through building a Linux system from the ground up, and gives a pretty thorough overview of why everything is working the way that it is.
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Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#94Maybe not best in the "build a project" genre, but about (Common) Lisp, you have Land of Lisp - in which you build several small games and sort of reuse some code between chapters, and Let Over Lambda, which does build its further code on top of earlier code, although it's more of an exercise in bending Lisp to your will than a well-defined project. I recommend both books; I found them very good.
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#95TECS: "The Elements Of Computing Systems" https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems In this book you build a (virtualized) computer. It is one of the best books I ever read.
First half of the book is available here for free.
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#96"The Art of the Metaobject Protocol" leads you from a very thin layer on top of CLOS to a very rich layer of objects-oriented object implementations. It's a classic.
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#97If you are interested in assembly language concepts and don't mind something slightly archaic, I thoroughly enjoyed this book: https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Nortons-Assembly-Language-Book/... It goes through lessons that build up to a pretty good interactive disk editor (DSKPATCH) written entirely in x86 assembly. Its the book that got 12 year old me out of the BASIC ghetto.
I came here to recommend Assembly Language for the PC(https://www.amazon.com/Assembly-Language-Brady-programming-l...) which I believe is actually the same book, possibly with some updates. I was probably 14 years old and bought a boxed copy of Borland Turbo Assembler for $100 at the software store at the mall. Totally worth it.
I've never actually written assembly professionally, but the understanding of what's going on at the CPU level has been invaluable. You could probably run FreeDOS(http://www.freedos.org/) in a VM, looks like it comes with a couple different assemblers.
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#98http://www.nand2tetris.org/
On a similar topic but a bit less project oriented:
Charles Petzolds "CODE The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software"
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#99I used the older React+Webpack version of https://survivejs.com/ to learn React recently. You build a small Kanban/Trello webapp.
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#100django's tutorial has you creating a polling website: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/intro/tutorial01/