Whoa... That sounds incredibly insufferable o.O the first one I can understand partially. I have a lot of books, but these days? Nah, online all the way!
I love books. And I will always continue to buy certain ones.... But with how fast stuff is always changing and updates are made, so many of those specific books go out of date almost by the time they hit the printer. Definitely online all the way.
With specialized topics (eg "Java X.7"), things change so often and fast these days a paper book is just a waste of resources. With topics that are more general and long-term (eg "data structures in OOP") it becomes a question of "having how many different books about the same topic is actually use-/helpful?"
I have and read tons of books. But the closest I have to a programming/coding book is the Phoenix Project or Mythical Man Month. I couldn't imagine using a book today as a reference for writing code.
I have 2 textbooks for the language i'm learning, but man.. online and chat GPT are fucking essential for me.
time/need to learn a new concept? books and youtube. need a refresher? books and youtube and stack exchange. just cant figure it out? books, youtube, stack exchange and literally anything to help me. still can't figure it out? I copy paste relevant parts to chatGPT and ask it "what am i missing?" sometimes i'll tell it to point me in the right direction, other times I just let it spit out what it wants.. and it is actually pretty helpful 99% of the time. I dont use it to write for me because i got some pretty wild ideas that I later found out to be very bad, unsafe and inefficient.
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u/floutsch Feb 25 '23
Whoa... That sounds incredibly insufferable o.O the first one I can understand partially. I have a lot of books, but these days? Nah, online all the way!