I'd buy Learn Assembly The Hard Way (x86/amd64) and (modern) OpenGL The Hard Way ;)
Learn Python The Hard Way Now For Sale
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#32Dang, I'd love R, C, or ChucK. That is a tough choice.
Woah, another ChucK fan. Why not PD? I submitted a link to a PD book yesterday but got not love. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1858875
Didn't see the submission, and haven't heard much about PD but I'll check it out. Thanks for the link!
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#33I just ordered a copy, and for what it's worth, I'll gladly buy either a "Learn R The Hard Way", or "Learn C The Hard Way".
Cool, thanks a bunch. Seems the voting is C, then R, then ChucK.
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#34I'd definitely buy Learn C the hard way, I've been following the book LPTHW online few weeks ago and the way you teach IMHO is the best approach so no programming folks like me can grasp the language. Way to go Zed.
Re: LCTHW, I am taking "Linux Systems Programming In C" course at ucsc extension. You are supposed to already know c before taking the course, but it has been a fun trial-by-fire to dust off ye olde c skills AND learn the intricacies of POSIX programming simultaneously.
You should go grab valgrind and run your programs under it all the time. It'll help you spot and avoid those annoying memory errors.
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#35I really like that this book was written but $30 dollars isn't actually cheap for a technical book, I'd much rather like to buy something like Land of Lisp, but I'm probably not the main audience and I don't know how well I fit into the target audience. It is a short book for $30 dollars though, and I don't know if it is just Lulu's pricing that is causing this, but kudos for offering it for free. Edit: well sorry th…
I based the price on The Little Schemer, which is even smaller, has even less instruction, and goes for $29 retail, $23 street. If TLS were 8.5x11 like mine it'd be 30 pages long.
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#36I liked the "Advice From An Old Programmer" at the end: "Which programming language you learn and use does not matter. Do not get sucked into the religion surrounding programing languages as that will only blind you to their true purpose of being your tool for doing interesting things" "Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting. ...You are much better off using code as your secret weapon in another p…
I actually got pissed at an editor who tried to change that. Poor guy. :-)
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#37here is the free version:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/e11pz/learn_pyt...
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#38I am curious as to why you picked lulu instead of amazon? In fact, did you have a choice to make?
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#39I liked the "Advice From An Old Programmer" at the end: "Which programming language you learn and use does not matter. Do not get sucked into the religion surrounding programing languages as that will only blind you to their true purpose of being your tool for doing interesting things" "Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting. ...You are much better off using code as your secret weapon in another p…
Does machine learning count as maths? :(