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> In the pre-Internet era, when you were curious about tech X, you'd walk to a store, skim through a bunch of books, pick the one you liked the most, and take it home. The whole process of searching took less than an hour, and then you were committed, because back at home, it was the only material about X you had physically available True, but those materials were often of questionable quality. I remember trying to learn C programming long time ago from an old book I found in my father's bookcase, and I also remember being completely confused by it. I recently found it again and skimmed through it - the explanations were terrible, the code was bug ridden and horribly outdated - the <conio.h> imports were everywhere, even though the code never used any code from it. > These days, you type X into Google, and you get hit with an avalanche of tutorials, ebooks, video series, paid courses, online lectures, all available constantly and immediately I find this a much better alternative - I usually pick a few ebooks that look nice, then start reading the first to see how it goes. If I find it tedious after a short while, I try another, and repeat until learned. |