Ask HN: What are good practical programming books?

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Post by sol2k » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 3:11 AM UTC

I am looking for practical programming books. Think "Practical Common Lisp", "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" or "Ruby on Rails Tutorial". These examples happen to be freely available online, but I am looking for free or paid options for the following languages/frameworks: Clojure, Go, Rust, C#, React, Flask, Django, Swift.

Any others that you may know of and care to share would be welcome.

Re: Ask HN: What are good practical programming books?

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Post by marai2 » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 3:47 AM UTC

I really liked the "Go Programming Language" book http://www.gopl.io/ Even though it's a book about learning the language and not about some framework or doing particular projects in it - the examples in the book are not just toy examples but very practical examples. Most introductory language books remain in the realm of toy examples for too many chapters before one gets a taste of solving practical problems with it.

Re: Ask HN: What are good practical programming books?

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Post by parasitid » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 7:58 AM UTC

The Little Schemer

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/

Re: Ask HN: What are good practical programming books?

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Post by mjhea0 » Thu, Feb 25, 2016, 3:24 PM UTC

Check out Real Python @ https://realpython.com/ to learn Python and web development (including Flask and Django) through hands-on, interesting examples that are useful and fun! (I am the co-founder/author)

On the fence? Check out these free resources, developed by the Real Python team-

1. Free tutorials and resources >> https://realpython.com/resources/

2. DiscoverFlask >> http://discoverflask.com - Full Stack Web Development with Flask

3. Flaskr >> https://github.com/mjhea0/flaskr-tdd - Intro to Flask, Test Driven Development (TDD), and jQuery

Re: Ask HN: What are good practical programming books?

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Post by sol2k » Mon, Feb 29, 2016, 5:25 AM UTC

mjhea0 wrote: post #4

Check out Real Python @ https://realpython.com/ to learn Python and web development (including Flask and Django) through hands-on, interesting examples that are useful and fun! (I am the co-founder/author) On the fence? Check out these free resources, developed by the Real Python team- 1. Free tutorials and resources >> https://realpython.com/resources/ 2. DiscoverFlask >> http://discoverflask.com - Full Stack Web De…

Nice suggestions! Thanks!