Questions tagged [books]
Questions on books related to programming, software development, computer science, etc. Do not ask for book recommendations, they are off-topic for this site! Review the existing questions, as many popular books already have questions about them.
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Debugging miscompile [closed]
Recently I encountered an issue at work where a unit test written in C++ would crash only when being compiled with MSVC 2017 (MSVC 2019 and up are fine). I tried to debug this issue and it seems like ...
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Is TC++PL 4th Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup outdated?
First of all, I hope this question doesn't fall under "Asking For Books Recommendation" Category. Since TC++PL covers C++11, it is 3 revisions old (C++14, C++17, C++20), the ISO group is ...
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What does the crash early concept mean?
While I am reading The Pragmatic Programmer e2, I came across Tip 38: Crash Early. Basically, the author, at least to my understanding, advises to avoid catching exceptions and let the program crash. ...
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Trying to find a quote -- when you find a bug, fix all occurrences of it
I vaguely remember a quote from, IIRC Kernighan. Something along the lines of: when you find a bug, fix all occurrences of it I think it was either in the "Practice of Programming" or "The C ...
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Is SICP still relevant? [closed]
Today, I came across this book entitled:The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs I read the Table Of Contents and it really interests, me. It seems to be exactly what I've been looking ...
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Are 'The Pragmatic Programmer' and 'The Mythical Man Month' good books for people with limited practical experience programming [closed]
I was once told to read the books titled 'The Pragmatic Programmer' and 'The Mythical Man Month'. I have very little experience programming (basic HTML, CSS and JS). If I were to purchase these books,...
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Are programming books in other languages useful for Python? [closed]
I'm a self-taught intermediate Python programmer; I frequently come across popular books on software development and programming written in other languages (often Java). Typical examples: ...
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What's the difference in content between Chris Okasaki's 1996 thesis and 1999 book, Purely Functional Data Structures? [closed]
I want to read Purely Functional Data Structures. I've easily found the thesis (which is freely available as a PDF), but see that there's a book available also. So I'd like to know what the ...
