Five things you should know about computer books (reprint)

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Summary of important content:

1. The best results are:

• Discuss
• Practice
• Professors to others--such as writing

2. Technical books, is to spend money to buy time

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Although there are a lot of technical books on my bookshelf, it doesn't mean that I know every book well--but at least I've gone through the catalogue for every book, and most of the books have been turned over. Let's go through the table of contents before we start the nonsense:

• Under what circumstances will we buy technical books?
• What kind of books should we buy?
• What will we do when we get the book?
• After reading the book?
• Technical books, is not to spend money to buy time?

Under what circumstances will we buy technical books?

The situation of buying technical books should be the following:

• Some "new technologies" are used in the work. For themselves is the new technology, does not represent in the industry is the new technology.
• I want to try some new technology in my spare life.
• A book recommended by XXX. Although not related to the application, but in the end is XXX recommended. This XXX can be some Daniel, this can be Amazon-I see Amazon books have a lot of star, I will buy. Because it is true love that can be given to book reviews at Amazon.
• Explore a new area. When I was in college, this was my favorite thing to do, and to move on to see an unrelated field.

The first to 2nd of the above is because we need it, so we go to see it-and that's a common reason why we buy books everyday.

It is not ruled out that there is another situation:

What kind of books should we buy?

From the publishing industry, my favorite is the book of the Zoo (O ' Reilly Press), and then the other books. But O ' Reilly publishing house books are relatively slow, slow, in addition to this, and into the domestic need to be translated and so on. Speaking of translation, we have to say that Turing Education published translation books is very good.

And this industry, the most agile on the number Manning publishing house Manning Early Access program, this is a very agile publishing process.

In MEAP, you read a book Chapter-by-chapter while it's being written and get the final eBook as soon as it ' s finished. If you pre-order the Pbook, you'll get it long before it's available in stores.

Simply put, you can read the content of this chapter when the author finishes a chapter. As the author continues to write, you will be able to keep getting the relevant books. When the author finishes writing the book, you will finish reading the book.

Unfortunately, if you want to wait for the Chinese version of the books, almost a year. and the English version of the book, is hundreds of.

So in the process, the domestic publishing books will be faster in the process. And the domestic publishing situation is, write books are to earn fame. In contrast to working hours, writing a book is basically a loss of money to buy and sell. Needless to say, I wrote the six books Open source ebook, which is more money-losing business. Therefore, many technical Daniel are reluctant to write books . They are Daniel, not bad fame, not bad money.

So if we need a technical book in one area. In theory, the most visible is the domestic Manning > Packt > O ' Reilly.

So:

• If you want to buy real-class books, you can directly consider the purchase of domestic books, and then the Manning in action series, Packt Learning series.
• If you want to buy a theoretical series of books, preference for foreign--the majority of domestic Daniel are reluctant to write. The most common is the introduction of the mechanical Industry publishing House Classic series, as well as those Prentice Hall, Apress, Addison Wesley, Pearson and so on thick books.
• Most of O ' Reilly's books are worth buying, as well as Turing's educational translation of the O ' Reilly series.

By the right, if you're looking at pirated books, electronic versions and so on, you're not qualified to say that the book is rotten and poorly translated.

What will we do when we get the book?

Before we begin, we need to know briefly what the points are:

• Ordinary books are continuous and non-jumping, but technical books are available for jumping .
• The contents of the technical books are written in the catalogue, at one glance it seems to know what happened, such as: The first feast Taoyuan Heroes three jieyi, chop yellow towel hero First meritorious deeds, the second back Zhang Yide Wrath Whip du Mail, he guojiu conspiracy Huan vertical.
• In the book that introduces a frame, language, the author will constantly emphasize the framework, language features.

Now, should we not:

MU, Zhuo hair also. Bath, sprinkle body also. Wash, sprinkle foot also. Bath, sprinkle hands also.

The translation comes from:

The ancients read, solemn extreme, before reading to bathe incense, fresh convergence desire, bubble on a cup of tea, in the aroma curl, the mood brewing extremely full, and then sit book room.

Finished, we can start reading. In general, the main content of the book is either written in the preface, or written in the first chapter , but it must be in the directory, so you can follow this order:

• First read the preface and the first chapter
• Then look at the catalogue and find the chapters of interest
• Finally put on the books, Loaded forced.
• From time to time can be taken down-the seeds shell.

In fact, one thing is important in this process-indexing the contents of a book. In other words, we should probably remember when the book was spoken, the equivalent of, we remember some basic attributes of the framework and language. And that's how these attributes are built, and we can remember those key points and then google it.

Five things you should know about computer books

As in that "Programmer's built-in index and external Google," said:

The human brain is like an empty attic with a choice of furniture to put in.

after reading the book?

"Of course it's going to be on the books. ”

If you don't agree with me, I'll bask in the bookshelf.

And, of course, take a look at this picture:

The best results are:

• Discuss
• Practice
• Professors to others--such as writing

Technical books, is not to spend money to buy time?

Generally speaking, we will recommend to others to see the official documents, after all, the official documents are relatively new. One thing that is debatable, however, is the cost of time. Read an original book of English, at least allow people who can read English books to read the translation books.

When you work, you'll find it even more worthwhile: in most cases, it takes us a few days to explore a new technology ourselves, but if it's a book, it could be two hours.

Five things you should know about computer books (reprint)