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cjde225
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Genuine question, who reads programming books focused on a language?

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  • 2
    The last time I read a book on programming language was back in college.
    To top that I think social media has reduced our attention span so much that even reading a blog with a few hundred words feels like a marathon. People *usually* prefer consuming videos.
  • 4
    Not me, the language doesn't really matter, you can learn a language just by using google. It's much more useful to read about programming approaches and patterns in general
  • 1
    seldom. Programming code changes so quickly (or better frameworks sort of take over)
  • 4
    nowadays, technology evolves so fast, the book is outdated before it is printed.
  • 2
    I read/skim them for learning a new language.

    Much better than googling "how do I write a .... In ..." for every syntax or finding out the language has/doesn't have a feature.

    Yes Python... and JS....
  • 2
    They are all outdated before printed.

    But you can still get some good understanding on the basics of the language if you read a book, just ignore recommendations from the author on when/how to use certain language features.
  • 1
    @donuts What was your first language? How long have you been coding? May I ask?
  • 1
    @c3r38r170 started with VB when I was a kid and did some C#.

    Professionally Java, Python, JS.

    So either 10 or 25 years.
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    @donuts Okok, I see your point now. Thank you!
  • 0
    @cygnus videos are harder than books for me unless I can play it at 4x without losing the speech
  • 3
    I read one on .net core and C# as the framework is massive and I just didn't know where to start. It was a good decision, if extremely fucking boring.
  • 3
    Depends on, some hardware close stuff like C I do frequently use the K&R book as a reference and the latest decently supported VHDL version is like 2002/2008 unless you're doing asics
  • 0
    @cygnus I read books, just never programming language books - it seems futile
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