Nobody uses a horse and cart as an every day method of commuting anymore.
Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
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Re: Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
#12I still even now feel that K&R C should be a mandatory reading for CS students, but alas.
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#13Curiously, I do buy and read tech books. My hobby is legacy OS kernel research so I bought some second handed books on old Linux (kernel 1.2) and NT (3.1). It is fun to research so I don’t use AI often for side projects.
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#14I just bought $600 worth of programming books and I’m pretty stoked to read them. Mostly a lot of titles considered “the classics” but my brain works best with hard print materials.
would you mind sharing the names of the books you bought?
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Junior devs should still read to learn how to write the code. Surely the desired state isn't that nobody knows how to write code any more right?
Do you know how to operate a punch card?
Yes. But Python isn't punch cards behind the scenes so it's not the same thing at all.
Besides. You're not asking to produce punch cards to jam into the PDP.
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#16Nobody uses a horse and cart as an every day method of commuting anymore.
People still exercise and make up physical activities to compensate for the more sedentary lifestyle, though.
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#17I just bought $600 worth of programming books and I’m pretty stoked to read them. Mostly a lot of titles considered “the classics” but my brain works best with hard print materials.
This is a good investment. Your fingers will remember things long down the road and you will be better at having an AI bullshit detector for code development.
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#18I started learning software in the early 2010s and I read a lot of software books like the ones mentioned in the article. I continued reading them as the years went on, but the last one I bought was probably 4 or 5 years ago. Naturally, I probably don't need books as much as I used to -- I can generally pick up something new and know where to find what I need to find, "learning to learn" and all that. I also think they are better for foundational knowledge; many times the books become outdated very quickly. So if I was gonna attempt to write a database or learn distributed programming theory, I'd probably pick up a book, but if I wanted to learn a specific tool (or most languages) I'd probably stick to the web.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Junior devs should still read to learn how to write the code. Surely the desired state isn't that nobody knows how to write code any more right?
Do you know how to operate a punch card?
Do you maintain a system in which punch cards play a critical role?
Re: Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
#20> Stack Overflow is receiving about 3,800 questions a month
The crazy thing is that SO is dying so quickly that it's already under half that amount.
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#g...