I loved the MINIX book: https://www.amazon.com/Operating-Systems-Design-Implementati...
Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#152Miguel Grinberg's "Flask Web Development" [1] is an excellent introduction Python-based web development. You build a Twitter-clone. The book is an adaptation of the authors 18-part tutorial on the same topic [2]. [1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920031116.do [2] https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial...
Should I go for the book or the tutorial?
Does the book have a lot of advantage over the tutorial?
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#153Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial ( https://www.railstutorial.org/ ) is a great example of this. It'll run you through building a twitter clone and introduce you to git, heroku, a bit of CSS/HTML, and even goes into AJAX a bit. I can't recommend it enough to people looking to get into rails.
I loved it so much that I bought the movies just to make sure he earned something from me for such an extraordinary piece of work.
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#154Not a book, but I loved this series about building a Pascal interpreter (currently 12 parts): https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/ It was always on my bucket list to learn to write programming languages, but it's very daunting - this made it easy to learn in bite-sized chunks.
Thanks, @bcoughlan. I'm glad you liked it.
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#155What a delightful coincidence! I just posted the next chapter on my in-progress book "Crafting Interpreters" which walks you through implementing an interpreter (well, two actually) from scratch, a chapter at a time: http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/ I really liked "Build Your Own Lisp" too. Fun book. :)
I can really recommend this book, I've worked through it and am implementing the interpreter in Rust. I've just finished the latest chapter and am looking forward to the future instalments. Edit: here is the (WIP) intepreter: https://github.com/HarveyHunt/loxr
I'm going through the book implementing the project in Rust too.
I'm trying to learn Rust with this project. It's still far from idiomatic but I plan to keep implementing following the book and then refactor later.
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#156More hardware oriented I would suggest some of the new Raspberry Pi or Arduino based electronics kits, which are similar to books in that they provide a prescriptive path in to comprehending new areas through the satisfying and hand-on exploration of a defined project. Programming is involved too.
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#157A mostly dead technology, but does teach some general programming in the way you're asking: https://www.amazon.com/d/0596805632
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#158I haven't bought or started this yet, but this book on interpreters is on my todo list: https://interpreterbook.com/
Pretty good book.
I was a bit skeptical when I bought, but it was totally worth the price.
Strongly recommend it.
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#159Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial ( https://www.railstutorial.org/ ) is a great example of this. It'll run you through building a twitter clone and introduce you to git, heroku, a bit of CSS/HTML, and even goes into AJAX a bit. I can't recommend it enough to people looking to get into rails.
is there something similar to this but for python based frameworks, or javascript based? Seems like every great tutorial / books that I find are using ruby
For what it's worth, it's fairly agnostic when it comes to languages or frameworks. Yes, you'll learn Rails, and some Ruby on the way, but the intent is to learn web development from the ground up. You'll learn concepts that will apply to anything else you might be using. It's invaluable, and a great place to start with web development.
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#160http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028093.do
Build your own legit Analog Synthesizer!!! Not software but it is an end to end project. Good little book.