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Free PDFs About Programming From Stack Overflow

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

DannyB writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday January 21 2018, @10:48PM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday January 21 2018, @10:48PM (#625851) Homepage

    I know that you are being facetious, but the truth is that even with the connectivity of the internet and the relative low barrier of entry, people are still too lazy to learn on their own. Well, sometimes people can make it work for themselves, but unless you're the best of the best or have otherwise carved out a nice niche for yourself, larger corporations require a piece of paper. Even the cafeteria workers are H1-B employees nowadays.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @11:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @11:09AM (#626026)

    I know that you are being facetious, but the truth is that even with the connectivity of the internet and the relative low barrier of entry, people are still too lazy to learn on their own.

    Much of this likely has to do with the propaganda that you can't do anything without schooling, and that you can only be an intellectual if you have a degree. Why would they put much stock into self-education if they barely believe it's possible?

    Lack of motivation is a big factor as well, but schooling isn't going to fix that; such people will always be mediocre, or even worse.

    people are still too lazy to learn on their own.

    Then those people won't ever learn anything, because learning is something you do yourself. A teacher can try to guide you in the right direction, but if you're not willing to learn, then it's all for nothing.

    These corporations requiring pieces of paper are going to pass up perfectly good autodidacts who don't have degrees and get uneducated trash who have degrees but can't even right FizzBuzz programs. So it goes. You don't have to be able to think in the long-term to get rich, despite the fallacious logic used by some.