By bloid
via codinghorror.com
Published: Apr 29 2008 / 09:03
If programmers don't learn from books today, how do they learn to program? They do it the old-fashioned way: by rolling up their sleeves and writing code -- while harnessing the collective wisdom of the internet in a second window. The internet has rendered programming books obsolete. It's faster, more efficient, and just plain smarter to get your programming information online. I believe Doug McCune's experience, which he aptly describes as Why I Don't Read Books, is fairly typical.
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antych replied ago:
Books are good for beginner level, later they don't provide much value, unless you pick some very specialised and advanced topic. Nowadays, It's much more effective to just google stuff as you go.
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