Just glue an envelope with a CD to the backcover, this is what people were doing before your fancy internets became a thing. But really, if you a writing a book on a modern language, and your code has external dependencies, chances are it will not build 5 years forward, even if there are no URLs directly in the book.
Is it feasible to attach a usb drive to a book these days?
Programming book authors: put all the code in the book
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Re: Programming book authors: put all the code in the book
#12An anachronism from before the current era, when you can take a picture of text with your phone and tell ChatGPT "transcribe this".
Re: Programming book authors: put all the code in the book
#13"printed in the book itself, so the reader can type it in" An anachronism from before the current era, when you can take a picture of text with your phone and tell ChatGPT "transcribe this".
Re: Programming book authors: put all the code in the book
#14Just glue an envelope with a CD to the backcover, this is what people were doing before your fancy internets became a thing. But really, if you a writing a book on a modern language, and your code has external dependencies, chances are it will not build 5 years forward, even if there are no URLs directly in the book.
Re: Programming book authors: put all the code in the book
#15Just glue an envelope with a CD to the backcover, this is what people were doing before your fancy internets became a thing. But really, if you a writing a book on a modern language, and your code has external dependencies, chances are it will not build 5 years forward, even if there are no URLs directly in the book.
Is it feasible to attach a usb drive to a book these days?
Re: Programming book authors: put all the code in the book
#16"printed in the book itself, so the reader can type it in" An anachronism from before the current era, when you can take a picture of text with your phone and tell ChatGPT "transcribe this".
Re: Programming book authors: put all the code in the book
#17Re: Programming book authors: put all the code in the book
#18The antipattern here is the physical book, surely?
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#19Re: Programming book authors: put all the code in the book
#20Just glue an envelope with a CD to the backcover, this is what people were doing before your fancy internets became a thing. But really, if you a writing a book on a modern language, and your code has external dependencies, chances are it will not build 5 years forward, even if there are no URLs directly in the book.
Is it feasible to attach a usb drive to a book these days?