Humble Book Bundle: Coder's Bookshelf -- Rust, R, ECMAScript, Python and More!

A new Humble Bundle of interest to game developers, a collection of programming titles from No Starch Press, including books on R, ECMAScript, Rust, Linux and more.

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[ChrisMorganYT]

Not to rain on your parade but, the Rust Book is literally the free book offered on the official site as a ways of documentation. If anything I would've purchased a physical copy, but the aforementioned ebook can be literally had either free online or offline with something like DevDocs.

Don't get me wrong though; the bundle is still great in its own right!

Wrt the Rust Book itself; I'd say it's very thorough but to the point where seasoned programers will find the first chapters, well... boring. It eventually does get more interesting, specially given all of Rust's little quirks (it's like having a ML mashup with C++ and touches from other languages sprinkled here and there!). I'd remark the importance of borrowing and lifetimes, which the book does cover well!

[mb]

Thanks Mike for the heads up. Been getting into Rust and this is one of those books that I really wanted.

[aredt]

I got the whole shabang. I DON'T KNOW CODING T^T.

[arturkarlov]

I am not sure what your interest in R is, but it is a very niche language. It does one thing: analyzes the data and spits out statistics. Sometimes as numbers, sometimes as pretty pictures. So if you are doing some sort of data science, R may be useful, if you are doing anything else, it is kind of useless. Even for the data science, Python has been stealing some of Rs thunder lately. So you do you, but if you spend any amount of time on a language that does one thing that you don't need done, then your time may be better spent elsewhere. Oh, and if you decide to dive into R, consider using RStudio, as vanilla R interface is pretty clunky.

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[Stormgnome]

Just a small note.


The No Starch bundles usually contain some overlap with a previous bundle.
You still get your money's worth for sure, don't' doubt that.


I just happen to have "bought" the same book three times in some cases.

[AAa-tnrz]

'Automate the boring stuff' is a very good python learning book.

[asosa]

No Starch is my favorite publisher. I've never seen a No Starch book that was bad or low quality.

[cheerjoy]

A lot of people seem to recommend Automate the Boring Stuff, so these books can't be too bad, at least for beginner learners

[SlyPearTree]

I learned to use VIM with a No Starch Press book, I thought it was a very good book.

[RodrigoBadin]

Is the Doing math with Python book worthwhile?

[voxelv]

That's $60 in two months... I can't keep doing this...