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Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by angarg12 »

As others have said, expert-level material tend to not lend itself well to a book format.

Instead I find a lot of advance level knowledge is usually shared in tech blog posts and tech talks. The quality of these tends to vary a lot, so you need a bit of curation and due diligence. I myself found the videos from InfoQ very useful with 15 yoe (particularly in the software architecture track).

And if you want the really advanced stuff, you can also read papers. The barrier to entry is higher and sometimes is difficult to connect them to your everyday problems, but it doesn't get more cutting edge that than.

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by hectormalot »

hiyer wrote: post #43
whatamidoingyo wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any book recommendations for those topics?

Crafting interpreters [1] is one such, where the author walks you through writing an interpreter for a toy language. The book uses Kotlin IIRC, but you can write the interpreter in any language of your choice. 1. https://craftinginterpreters.com/

There is a similar crafting an interpreter[1] and compiler[2] pair of books for Go. I've heard good things about it, didn't work through it myself though:

1. https://interpreterbook.com

2. https://compilerbook.com

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by christofosho »

The ideas shared in the post replies are great. My approach has been more hands-on and puzzled together recently. I've been digging into harder problems on sites like leetcode to learn more math, and solidify some algorithm and data structure concepts. It has really helped me feel more confident and erase some of the lingering imposter syndrome around the algorithm-side of programming. A great guide that got me started on this was the tech interview handbook[1], which helped me dig into specific concepts instead of just randomly targeting. I've found my ability to review code has also improved through this, as I am picking up different libraries and concepts that I wouldn't have otherwise.

1. https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/algorithms/study-cheat...

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by anonymoushn »

Hello, recently I've enjoyed Casey Muratori's Performance-Aware Programming course[0]. You could read Algorithms for Modern Hardware[1] to learn similar set of stuff though. Casey's course is aimed at bringing beginners all the way to a nearly-industry-leading understanding of performance issues while the book assumes a bit more knowledge, but I think a lot of people have trouble getting into this stuff using a book if they don't have related experience.

I've also found Hacker's Delight Second Edition[2] to be a useful reference, and I really wish that I would get around to reading What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory[3] in full, because I end up reading a bunch of other things[4] to learn stuff that's surely in there.

[0]: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/welcome-to-the-performance...

[1]: https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/

[2]: https://github.com/lancetw/ebook-1/blob/80eccb7f59bf102586ba...

[3]: https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf

[4]: https://danluu.com/3c-conflict/

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by fauigerzigerk »

Zambyte wrote: post #50
fauigerzigerk wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I told it to stop apologising all the time. It apologised for doing that :)

Did you also try telling it what it should do instead?

No, because there is nothing I wanted it to do instead. Perhaps what I should have done was to change the system prompt to something like "You are a helpful assistant that will admit its mistakes but never apologise for them."

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by Arubis »

bentanweihao wrote: post #45
dartos wrote: post #26

https://www.manning.com/books/the-little-elixir-and-otp-guid... I read this book years ago when i was first learning elixir. I was coding for about 8 years at the time, so not new to the game. I liked it a lot. I don't think i wrote every project in the book, but it helped me wrap my head around OTP and how erland/elixir projects are structured. Highly recommend it.

Yay author here, and this made my day <3.

Any chance of a revised version one of these days? I, too, loved this book, but the ecosystem has moved far in the meantime & many of the examples no longer compile.

Re: Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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Post by Arubis »

Getting more focused on a particular subtopic seems to be a good way to get somewhat more advanced material. PragProg has a bunch of books for the Elixir ecosystem that might be up your alley (https://pragprog.com/titles/smgaelixir/genetic-algorithms-in..., for example).

I recently went through the Typescript resources over at https://executeprogram.com and found them really effective at solidifying the edges of that particular language for me; wish that was available for more ecosystems.

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