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Discussion on: What reference books should devs have handy on different CS subfields?

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Adrian B.G.

I would rather have cheatsheets around, not books, especially not hard cover ones, they do not have a good search algorithm, so they cannot be "handy at need".

Also I learn more new (relevant for nowdays) techniques and solutions from conferences, as example see my Advanced JavaScript 2017 talks playlist

Books are great for building a solid knowledge base, but in my fields (servers and web development) things are changing too fast to wait/read books

Dev.io topis on books
all the first 10-15 google search results on "top software books" are ok

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Wyatt Lee Chastain • Edited

Agreed. I read books more for learning concepts and use articles, talks, and documentation for learning technologies.

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John Best

That makes sense.

Thank you. :)