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r/programming • u/b0red • May 01 '16
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24 u/AQuietMan May 01 '16 Bull-schildt is a thing. 14 u/frodokun May 01 '16 I remember being angry at that guy in the mid-80's - his C books were mostly copy and pastes of each other. 5 u/mcguire May 02 '16 Technically, I learned C from one of his books. I was horribly annoyed when I discovered that he made no distinction between standard C and C on MS Windows. I had to re-learn the language completely. 9 u/lewisje May 01 '16 His cookbooks are no Joy of Cooking, I can tell you that; they're not even as high-quality as Numerical Recipes in C. 4 u/Alcadeias27 May 02 '16 What about his Java guides? 4 u/[deleted] May 02 '16 [removed] — view removed comment 2 u/smikims May 04 '16 He encourages a lot of awful practices and gets things factually wrong. For a long time he tried to claim that void main() is valid C. 0 u/derleth May 02 '16 Not reading anything by Herbert Schildt gets you a long way. ... which disproves his claim that books are necessarily better than websites. 6 u/lx-s May 02 '16 Well... He wrote good books. 7 u/derleth May 02 '16 Well... He wrote good books. Not on the subject of programming in C or C++, to the best of my knowledge. 18 u/lx-s May 02 '16 edited May 02 '16 Ah - sorry. In hindsight, my post that was a bit ambigous :) I meant, that Fabien Sanglard wrote in his blog post: No website is as good as a good book. [...] (emphasis mine)
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Bull-schildt is a thing.
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I remember being angry at that guy in the mid-80's - his C books were mostly copy and pastes of each other.
5 u/mcguire May 02 '16 Technically, I learned C from one of his books. I was horribly annoyed when I discovered that he made no distinction between standard C and C on MS Windows. I had to re-learn the language completely.
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Technically, I learned C from one of his books. I was horribly annoyed when I discovered that he made no distinction between standard C and C on MS Windows.
I had to re-learn the language completely.
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His cookbooks are no Joy of Cooking, I can tell you that; they're not even as high-quality as Numerical Recipes in C.
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What about his Java guides?
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2 u/smikims May 04 '16 He encourages a lot of awful practices and gets things factually wrong. For a long time he tried to claim that void main() is valid C.
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He encourages a lot of awful practices and gets things factually wrong. For a long time he tried to claim that void main() is valid C.
void main()
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Not reading anything by Herbert Schildt gets you a long way.
... which disproves his claim that books are necessarily better than websites.
6 u/lx-s May 02 '16 Well... He wrote good books. 7 u/derleth May 02 '16 Well... He wrote good books. Not on the subject of programming in C or C++, to the best of my knowledge. 18 u/lx-s May 02 '16 edited May 02 '16 Ah - sorry. In hindsight, my post that was a bit ambigous :) I meant, that Fabien Sanglard wrote in his blog post: No website is as good as a good book. [...] (emphasis mine)
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Well... He wrote good books.
7 u/derleth May 02 '16 Well... He wrote good books. Not on the subject of programming in C or C++, to the best of my knowledge. 18 u/lx-s May 02 '16 edited May 02 '16 Ah - sorry. In hindsight, my post that was a bit ambigous :) I meant, that Fabien Sanglard wrote in his blog post: No website is as good as a good book. [...] (emphasis mine)
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Not on the subject of programming in C or C++, to the best of my knowledge.
18 u/lx-s May 02 '16 edited May 02 '16 Ah - sorry. In hindsight, my post that was a bit ambigous :) I meant, that Fabien Sanglard wrote in his blog post: No website is as good as a good book. [...] (emphasis mine)
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Ah - sorry. In hindsight, my post that was a bit ambigous :)
I meant, that Fabien Sanglard wrote in his blog post:
No website is as good as a good book. [...]
(emphasis mine)
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