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24 alternatives to Book on writing many kind of cool software from scratch
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Book on writing many kind of cool software from scratch launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey HN, I just wanted to share that after five months of intense work and countless caffeine-fueled writing sessions, "Master Software Architecture: A Pragmatic Guide" is now available. Writing this book was a crazy time. I entirely focused on it, and it took exactly 753 hours of writing, editing, and image editing & resizing(!) until the premiere. Yes, the last one (images) was a killer. If you ever think about writing a book, reserve a lot of time for it unless someone else does it for you. As a result, I am handing you the nearly 400-page book. It is a guide that will help you connect all…
2024 · leanpub.com · its alternatives →
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Essential Skills and Concepts For The Self-taught Programmer
2016 · bigmachine.io · its alternatives →
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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Interviews with the 15 most interesting computer programmers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Clever solutions to classic programming problems
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Getting software projects back on track
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hello. This year I dived into UI/UX area and at the same time I work as a web developer. I sincerely love making good UI. But at my full time job it's not always possible due to different reasons =\ So I've been posting random UI/UX staff on Twitter, then I made a free book that had 50 tips (posted it here as well). I decided to finish this year by collecting everything I learned and here it is: https://akcium.gumroad.com/l/ui-ux-tips. This time it's a paid one. But, you can check ~20 pages of it, just go to…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Code▲76The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
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Free book about building MVPs fast.
2015 · mattkremer.com · its alternatives →
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One of the best practical guides to programming
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware
2016 · nostarch.com · its alternatives →
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Little book of big ideas
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A step-by-step guide for bootstrapped software entrepreneurs
2015 · singlefounderhandbook.com · its alternatives →
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A tutorial introduction to computer development environments
2017 · learnenough.com · its alternatives →
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