Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday January 21 2018, @01:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the free-stuff dept.

Here is an excellent collection of 45 free books in PDF format which I found here — "Programming Notes for Professionals" books.

The PDFs contain this on one of their very first pages:

Please feel free to share this PDF with anyone for free

This ${insert title here} Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack
Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack
Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA, see credits at
the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be
copyright of their respective owners unless otherwise specified.

Because of the range of software development related topics covered, I thought this might be of interest to a large fraction of people on SN.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by tibman on Sunday January 21 2018, @07:35PM (1 child)

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 21 2018, @07:35PM (#625753)

    A lot of "manuals" are terrible. Most of MSDN is terrible. W3C, PHP.net, and MDN are good for web technologies. If you are doing some microsoft stack stuff then you already know the official documentation is really bottom barrel trash. Older and more established languages have the benefit of a lot of time to distill developer knowledge into something readable. For those languages most people own dead-tree manuals that are a decade old and still "up to date" : P

    I like stack overflow for the really esoteric stuff. Edge cases and technology quirks are rarely documented. Saved my bacon a few times.

    --
    SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +3  
       Interesting=2, Informative=1, Total=3
    Extra 'Interesting' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   5  
  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Sunday January 21 2018, @08:58PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Sunday January 21 2018, @08:58PM (#625799) Journal

    I find Stack Overflow useful. They have perhaps done too much SEO, drowning out other resources, but other than that, I like it.

    I agree that there are plenty of bad manuals. Lots of bad programming textbooks too. And, yeah, MSDN is one of the worst. Some of their "documentation" is totally content free sales points that were probably written by non-technical marketing drones. What is package X? X is a very powerful package that "sparks the imagination" and "increases your productivity" and "reduces errors"! It's Easy To Learn, and you will love it!

    I could use more cheat sheets. Upon coming back to a language I haven't used in a while, I need memory joggers. Also, could do with more examples showing how to use new features. Like, in C++, I'm still more familiar with string.h and stdio.h than Standard Template Library strings and iostream. I'd heard for years that stdio had better performance than iostream, so didn't bother much with the latter. Never knew, until recently, it was because the default is to make iostream backward compatible with stdio, and if that backward compatibility is disabled, then iostream's performance is on par with stdio.