Ask HN: Best books/tutorials you read in 2013?

13 pointsby Anon8413 anni fa10 comments

Now that the year is coming to a close and we have all gone through a long list of resources.

What would you say were the best books articles or tutorials you read? Or are planning to read in 2014?

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2718281828413 anni fa

The Information A History, A Theory, A Flood. is the book that I wanted to write and then I found out it existed and the author did a better job than I probably could have.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/d...

Secrets of a JavaScript Ninja I enjoyed. Nothing that was like "ZOMG!" but it did help me think better about my JS code. http://www.manning.com/resig/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Tartt Has a new book out I haven't read, yet, but her other books have been great. especially http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-History-Donna-Tartt/dp/1400...

Then neither a tutorial nor book, but pretty helpful: Bookmarking the comments of people like Paul Graham. Since he usually makes insightful comments on interesting articles, it works as a sorta hackish "Best Of" link https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

hvd13 anni fa

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life. This is Scott adams take on being successful. http://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-ebook...

Choose yourself is a similar themed book. http://www.amazon.com/Choose-Yourself-James-Altucher-ebook/d...

Best 16$ spent in 2013.

wturner13 anni fa

"Mastery" by Robert Greene was good. It actually works better as an audio book as it's wrapped in narratives of people who went on to do extraordinary things. Hence listening lends better to it than than reading.

I read "Effective Javascript" which is good.

Other than that just a bunch of scattered tuts and pieces all over the place.

unsquare13 anni fa

"Design Is a Job" by Mike Monteiro

http://www.abookapart.com/products/design-is-a-job

If you are new to freelancing (or not) in any fields, you'll find nuggets of wisdom in this one, great read.

krrishd13 anni fa

Discover Meteor. (http://discovermeteor.com).

alexgaribay13 anni fa

Agreed. Very nicely laid out and informative.

Splendor13 anni fa

I really enjoyed Telerik's "30 Days of TDD" series which just wrapped up. http://blogs.telerik.com/james-bender/posts/13-09-09/30-days...

o_nate13 anni fa

http://guidetodatamining.com/

Readable, gentle intro to practical data mining techniques for programmers who may be wondering what all the fuss is about.

hhimanshu13 anni fa

Clean Code

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arnelbucio13 anni fa

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