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The Programmer's Brain

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Re: The Programmer's Brain

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Post by woleium »

are Manning books any better these days? They always used to rush the most awful poorly edited and planned content to market to be the first ones with a book on $NewTechnology

Re: The Programmer's Brain

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Post by Sr_developer »

woleium wrote: post #2

are Manning books any better these days? They always used to rush the most awful poorly edited and planned content to market to be the first ones with a book on $NewTechnology

I was to comment the same the other day , but the post was about some book the author was promoting so I didnt want to be a party popper but the book was totally mediocre.

It seems to me the inevitable destiny of all "tech" press, start with strong titles and devolve into crap, or to be fairer a crap-shoot.

So now you have:

ALWAYS HAVE BEEN "CRAP" = Packt and Apress

STARTED OK,GOOD NOW MOSTLY CRAP = Pragmatic, Manning, No Starch

STILL OK,GOOD = O'Reilly, CUP

Re: The Programmer's Brain

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Post by tomrod »

booleandilemma wrote: post #3
woleium wrote: post #2

are Manning books any better these days? They always used to rush the most awful poorly edited and planned content to market to be the first ones with a book on $NewTechnology

I’ve always liked Manning…the one I can’t stand is Packt…

I have purchased exactly two Packt books.

One was actually fantastic quality -- one of the best ML/Python programming books I've come across.

The other was for some specialty GIS work, and it was tremendously terrible quality but the only source available.

Re: The Programmer's Brain

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Post by codetrotter »

tomrod wrote: post #6
booleandilemma wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve always liked Manning…the one I can’t stand is Packt…

I have purchased exactly two Packt books. One was actually fantastic quality -- one of the best ML/Python programming books I've come across. The other was for some specialty GIS work, and it was tremendously terrible quality but the only source available.

I used to check on the Packt page where they gave a book away for free daily a few years ago.

Out of all of the books most of them were trash. There was a couple of really good ones in there. But all-over my clear impression from the books was that Packt has basically no lower bar whatsoever on quality.

Re: The Programmer's Brain

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Post by tomrod »

codetrotter wrote: post #7
tomrod wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have purchased exactly two Packt books. One was actually fantastic quality -- one of the best ML/Python programming books I've come across. The other was for some specialty GIS work, and it was tremendously terrible quality but the only source available.

I used to check on the Packt page where they gave a book away for free daily a few years ago. Out of all of the books most of them were trash. There was a couple of really good ones in there. But all-over my clear impression from the books was that Packt has basically no lower bar whatsoever on quality.

Agreed.

There are very few cases where I would use Packt, and only after personal recommendations.

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