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Boris Jamot ✊ /

I quite never read programming books. Is that a problem ? 🤔
The only books I read were about OCaml, HTML & Squeak...

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rhymes • Edited

I don't do it either anymore. I would probably re-read two or three of those though.

Some of those books pre-date the amount of free material you can find now online. Github and StackOverflow didn't exist. It wasn't impossible without them but books were a shortcut, nowadays probably book are the long route :D

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Boris Jamot ✊ /

You're right but I think that reading books has many benefits compared to short online resources : they help to build up your mind much more deeply.