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The Design of Everyday Things
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Transcendental principles
This book isn't focused on recent trends or properties specific to a certain field, and thus applies to all design. It provides a broad view and allows focusing on the fundamental goals of the user experience, rather than being limited in scope.
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Quite dated
Examples are quite old, as are the illustrations.
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Focused on the user
Whatever that's being designed, for whatever purpose, it always has the same goal of being used by someone. This book is focused on that interaction and on why users make mistakes. These principles still apply directly to web design, when design leads users to make mistakes, it will ultimately drive users away.
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A lot to read
It's quite a long read, there is a lot of material to be covered, if you compare it to similar but more concise books, like The Non-Designer's Design Book.
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Not specifically for web design
This book challenges the reader to think about the design of all objects, and their user-friendliness/usability. It is not specifically targeted towards web designers, but will help web designers think in a way that benefits users.
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Structure and Intepretation of Computer Programs
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Knowledge can be applied to any language
This isn't a book you'll glean direct practical tidbits out of, an introduction to not only functional programming but how to think in a paradigm outside the usual way C*/Python/Ruby/Java/etc... are coded. Even if you wind up never working in Scheme or any other primarily functional language, the tactics and thought processes you'll learn here will apply to any currently-evolving language to a greater or lesser degree. You'll be able to map your thought process into the paradigm that works best for your current situation and not just be forced into a limited set of idioms that causes unnecessary boilerplate and clunky code mangling.
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Teaches very important programming concepts
Like closures and encapsulation without language support of objects.
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Very good for absolute beginners
This book gives a great insight about immutable and mutable state (with pros and cons), typisation, FP, OOP, and many other things in a very beginner-friendly manner
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Programmer-friendly
Clear, logical, well laid out, whilst including well-told stories. Reasonable contents/summary section at the start. Available both in dead tree and kindle formats.
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Entertaining
A good read to dip in to.
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Backed up by evidence
Every piece of advice is backed up by evidence from peer-reviewed studies that are clearly referenced.
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Easy to follow
Split into manageable chapters, with clear, brief summaries than you can genuinely use in under a minute.
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The C Programming Language (AKA: K&R)
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Well known classic
This book is so well known that it's affectionately called "K & R", after the authors. It's been cited in many other books and is familiar to most, if not all, CS students.
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Out of Date
Some commands and practices are out of date, so errata and googling is needed while going through the book.
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It's excerpted from the idea of its creators
This book is written by Dennis Ritchie, who was one of the main people behind the development and design of C and UNIX.
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Teaches bad style
The K&R style works for old Unix mainframe command-line programs that exit after a simple task and leave the cleanup to the OS; where input is only from trusted experts; and most functions are only called internally to the program. The environment is very different today. This style will get your server owned by hackers, or crash it due to a memory leak, etc. You will have to unlearn what you've learned from this book to use C correctly in the real world today.
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Creative, challenging exercises
The challenges at the end of each chapter do a great job of requiring many of the skills learned up to that point. Completing the challenges is a great way of insuring you understand the material.
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Not for beginners
Assumes familiarity not only with programming concepts but some C language specifics.
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This book set the template for programming language books
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An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus
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Works with most programming languages
Lambda calculus can be done with paper and pencil, but any programming language with lambda (like Python) can work with it.
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Hard to pick up
The first chapter is reportedly not so good.
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Hard to put down
Learn how to build a functional programming language from first principles.
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Non-technical
This book doesn't assume any kind of math or programming knowledge beyond elementary school.
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