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Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
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Re: Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
#42Somewhat on topic I'd like to ask what a good device is to read these books on? I'd like to grab a couple books to read over the holidays. For example someone else mentioned this book. https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-python It's available as two options... combo $49.99: pBook + eBook + liveBook eBook $39.99: pdf + ePub + kindle + liveBook Personally, I prefer paperback books, but I'm willing to try o…
Paper is fine.
Re: Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
#43My highlight was Yegor Bugayenko's "Elegant Objects". Volume 2 was released this year (however I found the first Volume (2016) much better). Yegor describes what went wrong with object-oriented programming. Whether you are stuck with Java or broaden your horizon, I can really recommend this book series, as it shows nicely how to deal with object-oriented code in the right way. What was eyeopening for me was that code…
Recently found him too. The 'webinars' I've seen from YouTube are interesting (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaIsQH4uc08x0H7Cu_OO7...). Certainly seems like a productive individual.
Re: Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
#44Somewhat on topic I'd like to ask what a good device is to read these books on? I'd like to grab a couple books to read over the holidays. For example someone else mentioned this book. https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-python It's available as two options... combo $49.99: pBook + eBook + liveBook eBook $39.99: pdf + ePub + kindle + liveBook Personally, I prefer paperback books, but I'm willing to try o…
I use a 12.9" iPad Pro, because in landscape with 2 pages side by side, it's feels just about the same size as reading a physical book.
Re: Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
#45I've been enjoying the in-progress "Crafting Interpreters" by Bob Nystrom: http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
I found "Writing an Interpreter in Go" to be a much better read. It was actually completely portable to C++ and Rust, and that made it useful to pretty much anyone.
Re: Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
#46Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems https://amzn.com/B06XNKV5TS ($24.99 Kindle) This book has picked up quite a bit of buzz as an intro to machine learning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772174 >cloverich: The quality of the book (thus far) is so high that I immediately started Googling about the author to try and learn more…
+1. I'm finding this book really useful for getting my head around machine learning and TensorFlow.
Also Deep Learning: A Practitioner's Approach by Patterson and Gibson.
Re: Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
#47Somewhat on topic I'd like to ask what a good device is to read these books on? I'd like to grab a couple books to read over the holidays. For example someone else mentioned this book. https://www.manning.com/books/deep-learning-with-python It's available as two options... combo $49.99: pBook + eBook + liveBook eBook $39.99: pdf + ePub + kindle + liveBook Personally, I prefer paperback books, but I'm willing to try o…
You can almost always get a 50% discount on Manning books, if you're signed up to their newsletter, by the way. I usually spring for the paper version, since they generally do a good job with them. Also, you can always buy the paper copy, register it, and get the ebook versions for free. It's a really nice model they use, I wish more publishers adopted it.
Today this one, and all of their MEAPs are 50% off with the code: dotd120817lt
Re: Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
#48+1 for Designing Data‑Intensive Applications.
Re: Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
#49Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems https://amzn.com/B06XNKV5TS ($24.99 Kindle) This book has picked up quite a bit of buzz as an intro to machine learning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15772174 >cloverich: The quality of the book (thus far) is so high that I immediately started Googling about the author to try and learn more…
In a more theoretical vein, "Deep Learning" by Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville was published in late 2016.
Re: Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
#50Shameless plug: I've recently released an open source, online, interactive[1], little-prerequisite, plain language, introductory Computer Graphics textbook here: http://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch [1] Live demos with more interaction coming very soon!
You actually have a lot of really interesting stuff on your site. The Client-Server Game Architecture and Pathfinding Demystified articles also both look like really good reads. Thanks for sharing.