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SICP made me fall in love with programming
Link to a pdf of the book: https://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
The Design of the UNIX Operating System
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
They taught me that there is no magic. Everything is logical and comprehensible.
As a self taught dev, the books that helped me most are: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software The Design of the UNIX Operating System Designing Data-Intensive Applications They taught me that there is no magic. Everything is logical and comprehensible.
Is it just me or do other people struggle to read these kinds of very technical books? It's not that I don't comprehend, it's that my brain finds it boring and hard to focus. I think I have trained my brain so much on rapid skimming of websites for useful info, while throwing away most of the content, that I tend to do the same with books, which really doesn't work well. Has anyone found alternative ways to consume t…
As a self taught dev, the books that helped me most are: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software The Design of the UNIX Operating System Designing Data-Intensive Applications They taught me that there is no magic. Everything is logical and comprehensible.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications was really good too, the best new technical book I've read in the last five years or so, though I have had trouble applying its techniques thus far.
Is it just me or do other people struggle to read these kinds of very technical books? It's not that I don't comprehend, it's that my brain finds it boring and hard to focus. I think I have trained my brain so much on rapid skimming of websites for useful info, while throwing away most of the content, that I tend to do the same with books, which really doesn't work well. Has anyone found alternative ways to consume t…
Is it just me or do other people struggle to read these kinds of very technical books? It's not that I don't comprehend, it's that my brain finds it boring and hard to focus. I think I have trained my brain so much on rapid skimming of websites for useful info, while throwing away most of the content, that I tend to do the same with books, which really doesn't work well. Has anyone found alternative ways to consume t…
Is it just me or do other people struggle to read these kinds of very technical books? It's not that I don't comprehend, it's that my brain finds it boring and hard to focus. I think I have trained my brain so much on rapid skimming of websites for useful info, while throwing away most of the content, that I tend to do the same with books, which really doesn't work well. Has anyone found alternative ways to consume t…
Deep, focused reading is a muscle that you need to work on. There isn’t a real answer other than practice, and focus on delayed gratification. We skim websites/articles because there is so much information out there, and not all of it is useful. I skim articles and then go back to fully read them once I make sure they’re actually worth the time. Same with some books, but books generally are worth it since they went t…
I set a single New Years Resolution goal to build this muscle: 12 books in this year. I’ve read 22 now.
What compels me to keep reading is the Reading Insights Streak feature in Kindle. It’s like a little reminder I can always check on to see if I’ve read today or not.