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Most beginners today start coding with YouTube tutorials. I decided to do the opposite. I started learning Java and Data Structures & Algorithms in Java primarily through books, and I’m using two legendary ones in parallel: 📘 Head First Java 📕 Ja...

Like my last book review, this book also came from my local library - they have so many cool tech-adjacent books available and I have so little time! This one wasn’t in quite as much demand as Careless People, but it still took a while to get it and ...

I immediately reserved this book from my local library when I spotted they had it a while back and it was in such demand that it took a few months for me to get hold of it and immediately had eight reservations once I did. Clearly, people are interes...

Every once in a while you stumble across a book that doesn’t try to teach you something new…but instead makes you feel understood. That was my experience with The Python Programmer’s Survival Guide — a book that isn’t a tutorial, isn’t a technical ma...

TL;DR: A book claiming AI will kill everyone hit the bestseller list. The extinction scenario is shaky. The fast takeoff assumption is questionable. But the coordination problem it exposes? That’s the real horror story, and nobody’s solving it. The r...
