Comments on: Why I don’t read books

By: Fatygant

Fatygant — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:18:31 +0000

You don’t read – buy you write programming books. Strange to me…

By: Sonny Steele

Sonny Steele — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:53:33 +0000

I am currently in the beginning stages of learning an OOP (C#) and i find the books to be a great learning tool for those people who don’t know anything yet. When you first get started you have no clue how to code anything so its a great asset to walk through these books. In fact i picked up your book. Flex for Dummies. My first dummies book and i gotta say it really helped me out with the basics inside of flex. So yeah I learn from books.

By: Is that Flex on my Kindle? | Doug McCune

Is that Flex on my Kindle? | Doug McCune — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:52:57 +0000

[...] if I have the choice (or more likely I won’t buy programming books at all, as I’ve written about previously). But if you’re traveling and you don’t mind the layout issues, there’s no reason [...]

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By: Bob on Medical Device Software » Blog Archive » Selecting Books About Programming

Mon, 26 May 2008 16:43:34 +0000

[...] This is tough to do. There are tons of technical books out there. Also, now that the Internet can instantly answer just about any question, the path of least resistance leads to arguments like this: Why I don’t read books. [...]

By: Programmers Don’t Read Books — But You Should | Developer Home

Programmers Don’t Read Books — But You Should | Developer Home — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:13:58 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:29:28 +0000

Today I found myself explaining to someone what we were referring to as ‘my philosophy of learning.’ I only had to re-bring up the topic for one reason or another and then later found myself right back in front of my computer, learning full programming languages, now, about 3 years after I was in classes about them with books and teachers and not knowing the first thing about programming.

A certain perspective is developed each time we learn something. The only way to gain perspective is by being the primary driver of the learning experience.

primary driver? …clearly i just spend way too much time in front of the computer learning more code than doing my philosophy homework.

sorry you had to be the one to have me randomly start typing on your blog reaponse field…

By: shazad mirza

shazad mirza — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:02:28 +0000

I think this is a great post and something i have been thinking about for a while to. However sometimes i personally find it nice to able to learn away from the computer. specially when i have shoulder or wrist pains. and i find it quite nice to read myself to sleep lol. But yeah my point is to give yourself a break from being gllued to the screen but still have the benifit of learning is why i would still buy books