2024-05-04 / industry
Teach Yourself Programming in T
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years Peter Norvig Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and youll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours alongside endless variations offering to teach C, SQL, Ruby, Algorithms, and so on in a few days or hours. The Amazon advanced search for [title: teach, yourself, hours, since: 2000and found 512 such books. Of the top ten, nine are programming books (the other is about bookkeeping). Similar results come from replacing teach yourself with learn or hours with days. The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn about p[…]
by Peter Norvig