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Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#2023D Game Engine Architecture by David H. Eberly:
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Engine-Architecture-Engineering-...
Not only is this a fantastic introduction to the math and the data structures involved in computer graphics, the book also walks you through the construction of an in-software renderer!
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#203"Let's Build a Compiler"[1] by Jack Crenshaw is fantastic. It uses Pascal as the implementation language, but I used Rust, and while the book targets 68000 assembly, I compiled things to x86_64 assembly.
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#204Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial ( https://www.railstutorial.org/ ) is a great example of this. It'll run you through building a twitter clone and introduce you to git, heroku, a bit of CSS/HTML, and even goes into AJAX a bit. I can't recommend it enough to people looking to get into rails.
I love that book and recommend it to anyone. The only thing I don't really like is its focus on MiniTest when practically everyone in the Ruby ecosystem has moved to RSpec. If I had to find a reason for this choice I'd say, one less gem to install and configure, and again convention over configuration.
It's been a while since I went through it, but did the tutorial not originally use RSpec, then switch it out at about version 4 (along with a few other tools) so that everything in the book made use of the most basic, out-of-the-box tools (as much as possible)?
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#205"The Art of the Metaobject Protocol" leads you from a very thin layer on top of CLOS to a very rich layer of objects-oriented object implementations. It's a classic.
I love this. Ha lisp doesn't have a good OO system. Lisp 5 minutes later: Implemented a powerful one out of macros...and u were saying?
You might want to read AMOP. It's not build out of macros, but a meta-object system.
It also took a decade of research&development to develop CLOS + MOP. From Flavors and LOOPS to AMOP.
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#206I believe this is how education systems should be like. You learn about stuff your subject while dealing with a project to do. Makes learning so much fun and better.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love this. Ha lisp doesn't have a good OO system. Lisp 5 minutes later: Implemented a powerful one out of macros...and u were saying?
You might want to read AMOP. It's not build out of macros, but a meta-object system. It also took a decade of research&development to develop CLOS + MOP. From Flavors and LOOPS to AMOP.
I've had it recommended to me before, but never read it. I also wasn't aware of the extreme effort in getting it right. Thank you.
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#209Miguel Grinberg's "Flask Web Development" [1] is an excellent introduction Python-based web development. You build a Twitter-clone. The book is an adaptation of the authors 18-part tutorial on the same topic [2]. [1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920031116.do [2] https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial...
Should I go for the book or the tutorial? Does the book have a lot of advantage over the tutorial?
Try the tutorial and see if you like it.
The book is much more polished. You follow along with this repo [1]. Every chapter you simply `$ git checkout chapter-n` and you're ready to go. It's amazing.
Re: Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?
#210Miguel Grinberg's "Flask Web Development" [1] is an excellent introduction Python-based web development. You build a Twitter-clone. The book is an adaptation of the authors 18-part tutorial on the same topic [2]. [1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920031116.do [2] https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial...
Remark that the article is rather old (although revisited 2014, however that's still an eternity in webdev world). Although I like flask (it was my first library to do "web stuff") I miss especially the fact that authentication is not part of the core lib, but only available via third-party extensions. That may not be a problem for an experienced dev, but for a starter in web-dev I highly appreciate a library or fram…
This all depends what your goal is.
If your goal is to understand web development then I would say that a micro-framework like Flask is better because you actually have to assemble all the pieces yourself. Moreover, if you're curious about how a given feature is implemented, extension source code is often very accessible. For example, all the business logic in Flask-Login is confined to one ~450 line Python file [1]. Not bad!
But one the other hand, if you're trying to create a production-ready service, then Django/Rails probably have fewer risks since they require fewer decisions.
Lastly, the book had a very thorough treatment of authentication. I agree that this is a huge pitfall, and I think Miguel introduced and explained the problem extremely well.
[1] https://github.com/maxcountryman/flask-login/blob/master/fla...