99% of the “learn programming language” literature is written by people who likely couldn’t do your job because they haven’t ever been programming.
This is why languages need good documentation.
It seems like it’s a booming industry though. I mean, there are entire sites like udemy where amateurs teach amateurs things they’ll never use in a real job, and that place, and others like it, seems to be doing just fine. Hell, every PACKT book ever written was worth more as blank paper.
Why do I care? I’m an external examiner, sometimes I need to read some of these god awful books to see what students are expected to know. I’m not sure why professors ever stray from the true CS classics, but they unfortunately do. Especially at the academy level.
> I’m an external examiner
> sometimes I need to read some of these god awful books to see what students are expected to know.
LoL
Here in India every kid de-facto refers to few content farm websites and while they are not outright wrong, there will always be subtle errors, as the content is contributed by other students only. And books - the textbooks are so unpopular and not even available on libgen.
Day by day, academia seems more like a drug cartel.
haha its worse than you realize. I was in a cafe in jakarta and I noticed this guy was giving another guy lessons in php. We ended up talking after and I mentioned I use vue. He wanted me to teach him how to use vue so that he could run a workshop where he teaches vue!
I feel like there's something a bit off about charging money teaching a skill that I haven't personally used extensively in a professional context. I guess others feel differently
This is why languages need good documentation.
It seems like it’s a booming industry though. I mean, there are entire sites like udemy where amateurs teach amateurs things they’ll never use in a real job, and that place, and others like it, seems to be doing just fine. Hell, every PACKT book ever written was worth more as blank paper.
Why do I care? I’m an external examiner, sometimes I need to read some of these god awful books to see what students are expected to know. I’m not sure why professors ever stray from the true CS classics, but they unfortunately do. Especially at the academy level.