Programming Notes for Professionals books

Post by Dangeranger » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 5:35 PM UTC

vog wrote: post #19

Dangeranger wrote: post #14

This is a really great effort to compile relevant answers into a narrative. Is there any way that the community can contribute to adding new resources to the list, so that the books can be updated in future releases?

> great effort to compile relevant answers into a narrative Don't confuse "StackOverflow Question&Answers" with "StackOverflow Documentation": https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/ Goalkicker "only" provided formatting and beauty. They did not reformulate tons of Q&A into a documentation - that work was already performed by the StackOverflow Community.

Post by bhrgunatha » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 5:54 PM UTC

willtim wrote: post #46

ndh2 wrote: post #34

Is everyone aware that this is merely a dump of "Stack Overflow Documentation" (not Stack Overflow Q/A), repackaged in PDF format ? (Also a request for bitcoin donations.) https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d... https://stackoverflow.com/documentation https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z There is no indication that these books are curated or edited.

Agreed. The Haskell version has advanced topics such as Free Monads in chapter 8 and higher-order functions in chapter 35! The author for each piece of content has also not been included, which means I have no way of knowing if the content has been authored by a computer science professor or his/her student.

Post by ksenzee » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 6:07 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #23

Several years ago, I would ask StackOverFlow questions on esoteric topics like elisp, with the idea that by asking small, well-defined questions, you could eventually create enough of a trail that no topic would remain difficult to learn. For example, here are a few I could find: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2170528/writing-hello-wo... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1541682/lisp-script-to-p... https://sta…

Post by bewuethr » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 6:16 PM UTC

Dangeranger wrote: post #51

vog wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> great effort to compile relevant answers into a narrative Don't confuse "StackOverflow Question&Answers" with "StackOverflow Documentation": https://stackoverflow.com/documentation/ Goalkicker "only" provided formatting and beauty. They did not reformulate tons of Q&A into a documentation - that work was already performed by the StackOverflow Community.

Wait, did the Stack Overflow community compile these answers into the ordered list provided by the book? What I had assumed is that the "author" of the book hand picked these answers and arranged them together along with their chapter names into a narrative to aid understanding. Is my understanding incorrect?

Post by happy-go-lucky » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 6:49 PM UTC

tsuraan wrote: post #52

cabalamat wrote: post #50

Not impressed. I downloaded the python book, chose a section at random (chapter 15: dictionaries), and found an error on the first thing I looked at. The book says that: d=dict(**otherDict) only works if otherDict's keys are strings, but in reality it also works if the keys are integers: >>> dict(**{1:2,3:4}) {1: 2, 3: 4}

Looks like a 2 vs 3 thing: Python 2.7.14 (default, Jan 6 2018, 14:37:03) [GCC 5.4.0] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> dict(**{1:2,3:4}) {1: 2, 3: 4} >>> vs Python 3.4.5 (default, Jan 6 2018, 14:44:12) [GCC 5.4.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> dict(**{1:2,3:4}) Traceback (most recent call last): File " ", line 1,…

    >>> {**{1:2,3:4}}
    {1: 2, 3: 4}