The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
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The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
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Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
#2This is pretty cool. Would also be neat if you could filter by date ... like what were the top JS books mentioned so far in 2017.
Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
#3Ah, the good old Design Patterns book, responsible for more atrocious over-abstracted, unreadable, hard to maintain Java code than anything else before or since.
Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
#4I wonder how many (0?) users cite the same book over and over again and if that's accounted for.
Furthermore I wonder if peddling one's own book on SO leads to more sales.
Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
#5Ah, the good old Design Patterns book, responsible for more atrocious over-abstracted, unreadable, hard to maintain Java code than anything else before or since.
Not only Java...
But I guess the Problem is how OOP is teached.
Before I learned about design patterns I only saw car or animal examples. Design patterns were the first real world OOP stuff I saw at university.
Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
#6Nice Amazon affiliate hack.
Would be great if the OP would tell us how many sales he made through this post (once he got the stats from the Amazon affiliate dashboard).
Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
#7Ah, the good old Design Patterns book, responsible for more atrocious over-abstracted, unreadable, hard to maintain Java code than anything else before or since.
Careful there - lest you throw the baby with the water.
As with all things - there are some good ideas there and some bad. And as I understand it, the book simply presented patterns - programmers were already using at that time. So the book's existence in itself wouldn't cause bad code IMO.
Now if someone were to write a "modern design patterns" book, people will probably write about:
1. Actor pattern and concurrency using message passing.
2. Immutability and - designing types with no shared mutable state.
3. Dependency injection
4. Pattern matching
5. MVC
6. mocks and stubs and fake objects?
7. ...
And same as before - some of these ideas when applied to certain cases could be bad.
Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
#8I got a problem with this code. I know, I'll use design patterns.
Great! I now have an AbstractProblemFactory to generate problems on demand.
Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
#9Ah, the good old Design Patterns book, responsible for more atrocious over-abstracted, unreadable, hard to maintain Java code than anything else before or since.
Not only Java... But I guess the Problem is how OOP is teached. Before I learned about design patterns I only saw car or animal examples. Design patterns were the first real world OOP stuff I saw at university.
Out of curiosity how long ago were you at university?
Re: The most mentioned books on Stack Overflow
#10Nice Amazon affiliate hack. Would be great if the OP would tell us how many sales he made through this post (once he got the stats from the Amazon affiliate dashboard).
I posted yesterday on reddit, 5 books sold