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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

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The first result is coding with Roblox Lua for me!

Oh I get the same now, perhaps a temporary failure?

Hopefully? Are you able to send messages?

And are things setup to "not" generate registration codes automatically?

Re: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

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I bought a copy of "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours" at a CompUSA in 1999. The guy at the checkout looked at it, laughed, and told me about this article. When I was 16 I was looking at programming books at Borders and a guy handed me a copy of "The C Programming Language"; changed my life. So much of my career has been shaped by running into developers or just people interested in programming out in the world. Th…

I remember reading a "Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours / 21 days" type book on a bus trip in the 1990s and learning C++ that way! It was a great start!

I did the same thing on a bus trip with another of Jesse Liberty's books: "Programming C#." That guy is a great communicator.

Re: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

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I bought a copy of "Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours" at a CompUSA in 1999. The guy at the checkout looked at it, laughed, and told me about this article. When I was 16 I was looking at programming books at Borders and a guy handed me a copy of "The C Programming Language"; changed my life. So much of my career has been shaped by running into developers or just people interested in programming out in the world. Th…

One of the hills on which I am prepared to die on is that "The C Programming Language" is the best programming language book I've ever read. Every developer should read it and learn C at least once, even if they promptly forgot it all.

Of course you're going to die on that hill, it's where we all live. Where else are you going to die?
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