Timeline for How do people read big technical books?
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| May 3, 2011 at 8:08 | comment | added | Donal Fellows | Doing the exercises is indeed important. I learned Standard ML that way, by working through Paulson's book on it and doing every exercise without a computer (this was before I could afford a laptop, many many years ago). I used a lot of paper, but I ended up knowing the language far better than everyone else in my year at University. Good times… | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 18:52 | comment | added | gablin | @Martin Wickman: My mistake, I misread your comment as "+1 for tend to avoid ..." Sorry. -_- | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 13:44 | comment | added | M.C. | I upvoted, but there is nothing consistent about O'Reilly books. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 12:07 | comment | added | Martin Wickman | @gablin: I said "I tend to". Besides, I own Code Complete. Didn't like it much to be honest. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 12:05 | comment | added | user1249 | @Martin, let me guess - the books you don't buy have lots of screen dumps? | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 11:54 | comment | added | gablin | @Martin Wickman: He did not say "avoid buying books that have more than 400 pages"; he said that "good books aren't necessarily big". That's a huge difference. If you avoided "large" books, then you'd never get to read Code Complete - the highest rate books in the question just linked. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 9:13 | comment | added | Martin Wickman | +1 I tend to avoid buying books that have more than 400 pages, just because I know it's gonna take me forever to read it. Besides , I find that shorter books are more to the point and doesn't repeat itself so much. | |
| Nov 9, 2010 at 7:04 | history | answered | user1249 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |