Ask HN: Do you read books about frameworks?

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2 points by m0xai 1285 days ago

Hello everyone!

I’m a business informatics student and working part time for a company as a web developer.

I started to read books about Programming as I started my university. But I noticed that I need books for remembering things that I read. I’m now buying a book every month and can freely write notes and stick the little colorful things on them to highlight a page.

I made a list of books but I noticed that there are few books about frameworks in my list. Like Spring In Action or Pro Django.

My question is, does it make sense buying books about frameworks or getting more high level books like The Clean Code, Design Patterns or maybe both?

2 comments

rlawson 1282 days ago

Yep - just read one about Django and starting one about Spring Boot. I know both these frameworks but I like to read as a way of keeping up on the new features. The key is I try to code as I read and as soon as possible put what I learned in action. Frameworks are so large these days that I constantly am discovering something new every time I deep dive.

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bradwood 1285 days ago

You learn more by _doing_ than just by reading books about a subject. Especially an applied one like programming.

Just start building stuff, googling, getting on forums, etc...

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m0xai 1285 days ago

I see that I forgot to mention, I write my small projects from top to bottom after reading The Clean Code because I had too many repeated codes, meaningless variable names etc.

I’m currently working on a side project but I don’t think it is enough just following Spring Security Guide or blog posts to implement user management system.

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