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Lysander on 26/05/2021 - 22:15 amazon.com.au (1162 clicks)
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Some more great freebies for the "tech-heads" among you. All books are highly rated and free at the time of posting.

C Programming: Language: A Step by Step Beginner's Guide to Learn C Programming in 7 Days: https://www.amazon.com.au/Programming-Language-Beginners-Gui…

Disrupting Finance: FinTech and Strategy in the 21st Century: https://www.amazon.com.au/Disrupting-Finance-Strategy-Palgra…

The Essence of Software Engineering: https://www.amazon.com.au/Essence-Software-Engineering-Volke…

Error-Correction Coding and Decoding: Bounds, Codes, Decoders, Analysis and Applications (Signals and Communication Technology): https://www.amazon.com.au/Error-Correction-Coding-Decoding-A…

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C Programming: Language: A Step by Step Beginner's Guide to Learn C Programming in 7 Days: https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Beginners-Guide-…

Disrupting Finance: FinTech and Strategy in the 21st Century: https://www.amazon.com/Disrupting-Finance-Strategy-Palgrave-…

The Essence of Software Engineering: https://www.amazon.com/Essence-Software-Engineering-Volker-G…

Error-Correction Coding and Decoding: Bounds, Codes, Decoders, Analysis and Applications (Signals and Communication Technology): https://www.amazon.com/Error-Correction-Coding-Decoding-Appl…

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  Jenny Death on 26/05/2021 - 22:34

  +2

  Error correction coding sounds like a good book, thanks Lysander.

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    Lysander on 26/05/2021 - 23:00

    +1

    Thank you. I hope you enjoy it.

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  Devyyn3 on 27/05/2021 - 00:29

  +1

  Thanks OP.

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  kzrocky on 27/05/2021 - 01:19

  +1

  Hello World

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  datsuzei on 27/05/2021 - 08:42

  “Essence of Software Engineer” sounds like Ted Bundy’s cologne.

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  uvbunny on 27/05/2021 - 09:04

  +1

  All books are highly rated

  Thanks to mass spam reviews?

  I had a quick look at the C programming book out of curiosity, and the top reviews on the US site are mostly 1 star from people that have actually bothered to look at the book!

  For anyone actually interested in learning C, don't waste your time with this rubbish.

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    DeepHorizon on 27/05/2021 - 09:18

    +1

    Is C a good language to start learning?

    I've had a play around with Python and a Raspberry Pi but it was mostly just following instructions

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      corremn on 27/05/2021 - 09:52

      +2

      Short answer: No.
      Python is good for hobbyists. But if C is interesting to you, try C++ instead. Otherwise stick friendly languages like Python (possibly Java/C#)

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      uvbunny on 27/05/2021 - 10:07

      +1

      Is C a good language to start learning?

      It depends on your objectives of course, but I'd think for most people there are probably better options.

      C is fairly low-level without built-in support for a lot of features that more recent languages offer.

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      umphy on 27/05/2021 - 15:34

      Depends.

      C is good for learning some fundamental concepts of Computer Science which is often abstracted away by more modern programming languages (e.g. pointers and memory management). If you are interested in systems programming, then you would definitely be interested in C.

      Having said that, my personal opinion is more and more systems programming in the future might be taken over by Rust.

      For applications programming, you would look at:
      * Java (lots of enterprise applications)
      * Python (big in data science community)
      * Javascript (web frontend)
      * SQL (database queries and data science)
      * Rust (parts of Firefox browser was written in Rust. It can also compile into WebAssembly FTW!)

      Edit: forgot to mention that for performance reasons, some Python modules actually call C code :)

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        Jenny Death on 27/05/2021 - 16:51

        Worth noting python is big in the machine learning community as well.

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  Lysander on 27/05/2021 - 09:47

  Do remember it is a basic book. For beginners.
  If expectations and realities are very far apart that makes for a lot of disappointment which is reflected in those 1 star reviews.

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    Thrift on 27/05/2021 - 12:27

    The "Step by Step Beginner's Guide to Learn C" book's ratings from the written reviews are consistently low - it sounds like it was a paraphrasing job from other sources and very roughly edited.

    There are no code samples in this book. I spent 20 minutes of my life reading this book before I realised that its useless
    - Euperia

    With no mention of the cl directive it would take 7 years to learn C. And I still can't find my A: drive!!!
    - bill coop

    The author's image has previously been used several years ago for
    * Richard Anderson - Learn about the features, functions, benefits and how to go about buying a walk in tub.
    * Trevor Turner - We Buy Junk Cars Orlando FL in Orlando, Florida

    The bulk of the ratings are anonymous with no review, easily bought to boost the rating.

    The Error-Correction Coding and Decoding book seems legit.

    Anyway, they are free. Getting any value from them is a bonus :)