One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
If you talk about underrepresented humans, notice that 100% of the books mentioned are written in one language, English, which is the mother tongue of lots of people, but also not the mother tongue of lots more people:
English speakers: 360–400 million (first language), 750 millions (second language) - 600 millions (as a foreign language)
I have no problem with English per se, just we should be clear that learning programming is hard, learning to read and write a foreign language is a long journey, and learning both at the same time can be very painful indeed!
I think books in your mother tongue makes especially sense for grasping the core concepts.
Up to date documentation about the latest Javascript framework in your mother tongue is a loosing battle, but the core concepts do not change that much.
So how to find those books?
One way to do it is to search the Amazon best seller lists in various languages:
One of the most salient features of our Tech Hiring culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.
If you talk about underrepresented humans, notice that 100% of the books mentioned are written in one language, English, which is the mother tongue of lots of people, but also not the mother tongue of lots more people:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_la...
I have no problem with English per se, just we should be clear that learning programming is hard, learning to read and write a foreign language is a long journey, and learning both at the same time can be very painful indeed!
I think books in your mother tongue makes especially sense for grasping the core concepts.
Up to date documentation about the latest Javascript framework in your mother tongue is a loosing battle, but the core concepts do not change that much.
So how to find those books?
One way to do it is to search the Amazon best seller lists in various languages:
Good point. Didn't think of that one!
That's probably a bias on my part, as I only searched English-language web pages.
Finding those books ain't easy, I added a comment on how to do it.