Programming Language Books Humble Bundle

A new Humble of interest to game developers, this oneis the Humble Book Bundle: Programming Books by O'Reilly. A collection of ebooks on programmings languages such as C#, Typescript, Go, Scala, Java, Python, Kotlin and more.

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[Abion]

Julia is a language intended for fast ML, AI, and data science applications and aims to compete with Python. It has an interesting feature set, but I can see it taking a while before it really threatens Python.

EDIT: Julia is **not** a JVM language. It is a JIT-compiled language, meaning it is interpreted and compiled on the fly at runtime without needing to be compiled into an executable file beforehand. Excellent for programming and prototyping very quickly, though that does tend to put a cap on how fast it can actually run. (Julia claims to be the only high-level member of the "petaflop club" which is a group of languages with a documented case of running a program with an operation speed of over a petaflop (1 quadrillion flops, or floating-point operations per second). While impressive, it's worth noting that it did this by running a parallel application on 9, 300 nodes on a supercomputer, so I'm not sure how that translates to real-world performance.)

[unqualifiedgamer]

c# 8 in a nutshell is a very nice book :) got it as an actual book.

[Abion]

"Using Asyncio in Python" = "Using Asynchronous Programming in Python"

Basically introducing you to the async and await keywords, the asynchronous queue, and other such related topics. This feature is a godsend when working with asynchronous operations like reading from the disk or sending network calls to an online API. (Important: asynchronous programming != parallel/multithreaded programming)

[firstname]

I believe Julia is popular among AI and ML programmers
so R, Python, Julia

[jojo-lprd]

Mike, that's cool that you highlighted your interest in kotlin - it is a really great language. You can use it for game development via libgdx which is actually a pretty awesome platform to work with for fun 2d game development.
Kotlin is not necessarily locked to the jvm - kotlin native can be used to compile binaries out of simple kotlin only files. There's pretty much no libraries available for but it is interesting that the language can compile to machine code with no relationship to java whatsoever. Maybe someday it will be a c++ competitor.
You know maybe someone could make a command-line game using kotlin native. Definitely no graphics for that yet (though you're supposed to be able to link to c++ libraries like go can - never seen anyone doing that though).

[ChickenFingers]

I have thought about buying Head First Kotlin. I learned Java by reading Head first Java many years ago and I really enjoyed the book. What like 10 bucks, for the Kotlin book, is an amazing price.

[ceigey-au]

For non gamedev this is pretty damn good. I was already eyeing up a print copy of Introducing Go and C# in a Nutshell. I'm actually surprised by the latter but I guess that's because C#9 is coming out so they want to "clear out" the current edition of their C# books (even though this is digital so technically unlimited supply...), I get the impression they like to keep the C# and Java book editions up to date even though both of those languages don't change that drastically just because of the enterprise market producing so much demand.

[JesseHouston]

Was on the fence about buying these. Came to see your video on it. Your enthusiasm got me over the hump. Definitely used your affiliate code. Much thanks from a fellow Canadian!

[brodriguez]

Fluent Python was in a May 2019 python bundle.

[delphicdescant]

Books on every language *except* the most common language for games, C++.
Oh well, I already know C++ anyway. I just thought that was funny.

[WorstDeveloper]

Edit: I was wrong, it's not the same book.

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The rust book is free online I think. It's the official Rust book.

[pralinor]

Since I visit Game From Scratch my colleagues are always amazed by all the books I have, and all the damn languages I know.

Miss Lua there. Interested in C#8 (my C# is rusty) and Asyncio in python. If the book is good it is like godsend.
Don't spit on the rest. Except java and Php.

[MrSmith]

Hi, Mike! I really love your videos and your diction. How long does it usually take you to make one video? Thx!

[elijahfuller]

The fluent python book is being updated, I believe it releases on Jan 2021

[zeropointzer]

Noice! Bought the whole pile of books and 7.77€ go right to Gamefromscratch 😎

[dukemagus]

Wish they've added a JavaScript book in the mix

[sch]

Man cool video! Just that at some sections you talk too fast! xD And I couldn't keep up haha, had to repeat over and over.

[TheReferrer]

Some of those books are brand new, how do they make money?

[brutal]

Mike you said you won't do this video. Or is it another bundle?

[someman]

I have head first design patterns. I got it because of great reviews. I am not satisfied with it. I would be wary of the Kotlin head first. To whom it may concern.

P.S. I like PHP better than JS.