12/ End of rant.
1/ Developers: Have well-written tutorial-style books on programming topics gone away?
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Stack exchange killed the O'Reilly star
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6/ If I wanted to read the manual, I would. I want it half-digested!
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2/ Maybe I'm just at the point en route to gray beard status where I'm extremely judgmental.
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3/ But, like 10-15 year ago, I remember books (esp. @pragprogs) being engaging, original, *technically correct*.
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4/ Now, every time I decide to kindle something thinking, "this will save me time," I make it twenty pages before giving up.
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5/ Half the time, the books are boring and pedagogically bad.
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7/ Plus, lots of time, it's just 60% of the manual, almost copy/pasted. So, boring and unoriginal.
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8/ And, then, there's the sea of straight up mistakes -- technical ones!
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9/ I'll work through it with frustration, but come on. If you're code doesn't even compile -- wtf? Errata isn't as solution to that.
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