Do you read programming books?

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[prinsniels]

I try to read some book(s), but mostly about larger topics like `building microservices` and `Designing data intensive applications`. When it comes to programming languages and single systems (spark, kubernetes etc) I tend to move to Youtube, Github etc. Liked the RedBook by the way, gave me a lot of insights

[thedownwardmachine]

I read Clean Architecture last year, working through Zionomicon right now. I wanted a deeper treatment of Zio, as well as exercises, after watching some of your videos on it.

[akkineni]

I am still old school I guess. I still read books. Last book I read is "Functional and reactive domain modeling " by Debasish Gosh.

[mbesida]

I read books about some fundamental things that I was not aware before or in case when it's hard to find a decent guide about the technology/library/tool. It seems that a lot of authors of that tools/libs/technology misunderstand the notion of reference and a guide. When you're new to a lib/tool/technology it's reference won't help you a lot. So book in this case may be preferable.

[sergio_leone_]

I prefer to learn something new by way of video tutorials and looking on someone else code. It's much more faster than reading.

[BloodnutXcom]

When I'm a total noob, I'll start with a video course to get the feeling and quick "hello world" examples.

If I'm more experienced then I'll be reading blog posts or watching conference talks.

I just find books too time consuming. Maybe it's because most books I encountered go on and on in an effort to make it understandable to a wide variety of readers but I'm the guy who wants to know the gist of something and maybe with a summary of the thinking process of why some feature was needed/designed the way it did