[ekianjo]

> reading programming books is a waste of time

Erm... How about no? Unless you read useless books.

[dhanna]

Contemporary students have no appreciation for reading and that’s going to be my competitive advantage.

[int_19h]

"Useless" accurately describes the majority of published books in the industry these days. So you can spend a lot of time finding the right book... or you can just dive straight for the spec.

[ekianjo]

> or you can just dive straight for the spec.

in practice its not even following the spec, its just copy pasting stack overflow answers.

Reading a book at least gives a more sustainable structure to what you learn.