Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?

7 pointsShosty1236y ago2 comments

A continuation of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086 which has been incredibly useful to me.

I recently finished this phenomenal book called "Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications":

https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/building-enterprise-javascript-applications

Which takes the reader from zero to building a non-trivial production fullstack application with JavaScript.

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r_singh6y ago

Nand2Tetris

"...an ambitious book attempting to give you a cohesive understanding of how everything in a computer works. Each chapter involves building a small piece of the overall system, from writing elementary logic gates in HDL, through a CPU and assembler, all the way to an application the size of a Tetris game"

from https://teachyourselfcs.com

flyingcroissant6y ago

“Mazes for Programmers” and “The Ray Tracer Challenge” by Jamis Buck.

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