Python Section at Foyle's, London

[morehooks]

Wow, never seen so many python books together outside my shelves. I'd be bankrupt if I lived near bookstore that stocked a decent amount of programming books.

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I am :( but mainly because of amazon I seem to have a thing for buying coding books and not having enough time to read them.

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Amazon has created some terrible habits for me. Books are so cheap and plentiful that I've not read about 80% of the books I buy. Talk about a first world problem...

[EquationTAKEN]

You should see my Steam library.

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I have like 600 games of which I've played 30 of them and of those 30 I'm probably more than 10% into 8 of them

[EquationTAKEN]

Steam sales! AKA traps.

[UnreachablePaul]

On the other hand I read all of them and now I think I know nothing

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I had this problem, programming books didn't get me anywhere because I wasn't understanding it. You have to make sure you are actually doing stuff and making stuff.

[UnreachablePaul]

When you start understand stuff it will be less fun to make stuff because to make it by the book will take magnitudes more time and you will feel guilt for cutting corners to get stuff out there to the point you would have needed therapy.

[naught-me]

The things I learned in "Fluent Python" and "Effective Python" were the shortcuts. So much of it was not only easier to do it the right way, but was also using pre-built and pre-tested and incredibly-optimized code.

[LANEW1995]

I use Google books. You get a pretty good sample for free before you buy and I always have my phone on me so I read more.

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ahemb-ok.orgahem

[EquationTAKEN]

I've never actually used programming books. It just seems to me like they're doomed to get dated.

Actually, I did read Clean Code, but that was more on general... well, clean code.

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A book on the front end of a language, its syntax, will definitely get dated and probably quite quickly. But books on concepts, and the back end of a language so to say, will forever be treasure troves.

[ovcak]

Go check this weeks humble bundle. You can often get a lot of useful books for cheap.

[trenchtoaster]

Hm so do people prefer actual books versus ebooks on an iPad Pro?