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Re: Programming Notes for Professionals books

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Post by sarreph »

jack6e wrote: post #28
sarreph wrote: post #2

What an amazing initiative — not least because they're providing something consumable for offline. Does anyone have any knowledge on the quality of this material? I'd love to dive into quite a few of them where I have surface-knowledge...

Agreed, this is incredible - especially to have something that can be perused in physical format. Looking through some of the examples for the languages I know well enough to judge, these seem to be good quality. As a simple case in point, for how to open a file in Python they only show using a context manager. Even though you can easily read files without that, it is the better, safer, perhaps slightly-more-intermed…

Thanks! Python is one of the ones I'm going to check out so that example makes me feel confident about using this as a resource :)

Re: Programming Notes for Professionals books

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Post by jfroma »

jamessb wrote: post #30
jfroma wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use a tool called "Dash.app" for Mac from Kapeli [1] (I've no affiliation with them). It allows me to download the documentation for a lot of development tools for offline consumption, these docs are called "Docsets", just to give you an idea of how many docsets it has check this link [3]. It makes also very easy to navigate and search. You can also download a "tag" from stackoverflow which is very useful. I know t…

As well as the browsers that use the docsets from Dash (e.g. Zeal [1] for Windows/Linux), there's DevDocs [2], a web-application that works offline and uses its own scraper. [1]: https://zealdocs.org/ [3]: https://devdocs.io/

devdocs.io is really neat!

Re: Programming Notes for Professionals books

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Post by SnowingXIV »

A lot of effort went into this, I also took a look at the languages I'm familiar with. They even have screenshots of the results and provide an excellent way of showing exactly what you would input and see. I really appreciate the fact that they are pdf that you can save and don't have to rely on an internet connection.

Re: Programming Notes for Professionals books

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Post by ndh2 »

Is everyone aware that this is merely a dump of "Stack Overflow Documentation" (not Stack Overflow Q/A), repackaged in PDF format ? (Also a request for bitcoin donations.)

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...

https://stackoverflow.com/documentation

https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z

There is no indication that these books are curated or edited.

Re: Programming Notes for Professionals books

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Post by zebrafish »

vog wrote: post #21
Raphmedia wrote: post #16

I'm tempted to print them for those moments when the internet is down and I still need to access SO.

Why do you need to kill trees just because the internet is down?

Think about the trees that are used to produce paper in the same way that you think about wheat that is used to make bread. There will always be demand for bread, so it makes sense to manage your natural resources responsibly. No natural resource means no product which means no business. Timber is managed like any other crop.

If there were no paper or wood products, those trees would be cut down to be replaced with homes, farmland, mining operations, etc. Owning land costs money, selling timber to the fiber & wood products industry actually preserves the forests occupying the land.

Re: Programming Notes for Professionals books

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Post by Nicksil »

ndh2 wrote: post #34

Is everyone aware that this is merely a dump of "Stack Overflow Documentation" (not Stack Overflow Q/A), repackaged in PDF format ? (Also a request for bitcoin donations.) https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d... https://stackoverflow.com/documentation https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z There is no indication that these books are curated or edited.

> Is everyone aware that this is merely a dump of SO documentation, repackaged in PDF format ?

Yes, it's stated on each book's page.

Re: Programming Notes for Professionals books

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Post by ndh2 »

Nicksil wrote: post #38
ndh2 wrote: post #34

Is everyone aware that this is merely a dump of "Stack Overflow Documentation" (not Stack Overflow Q/A), repackaged in PDF format ? (Also a request for bitcoin donations.) https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d... https://stackoverflow.com/documentation https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z There is no indication that these books are curated or edited.

> Is everyone aware that this is merely a dump of SO documentation, repackaged in PDF format ? Yes, it's stated on each book's page.

True. However, the discussion here in this thread doesn't indicate that everyone understood that statement.

Re: Programming Notes for Professionals books

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Post by agentultra »

sarreph wrote: post #2

What an amazing initiative — not least because they're providing something consumable for offline. Does anyone have any knowledge on the quality of this material? I'd love to dive into quite a few of them where I have surface-knowledge...

From a look at the Haskell one... the pedagogy is non-existent so I think the "for professionals" label is apt. The content is not in a sensible order or anything like that: it is merely compiled as a topic by chapter.

The nice thing is the formatting and links to an online REPL where you can play with the code samples.

I think it will be a handy reference material.

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