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  • Waldowal@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s fallen out of popularity over the years, but reading programming books. The big ones. There is an expectation that a book will contain every bit of info about a technology, and you can learn it, in depth, in one place. Online articles, videos, etc., often just skim the surface. You don’t get that deep learning and facts that the books would have. I find even “Official documentation” online is sparse and often doesn’t include examples to gain understanding.

    Unfortunately, the pace of change, especially in cloud services, cause books to be out of date too quickly, so I don’t see it making a comeback.

    • coloredgrayscale@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Concepts still apply, so for a beginner an outdated book would still be a valuable source.

      From there you can get up to date with the newest features with articles / tutorials. Cloud services probably should be first thing you develop for.