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Discussion on: How do you prefer to learn? Videos, Books, both?

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Matthieu Cneude

I learn with book. Many are formals, that's true, but some aren't. I'm thinking about Learning the Hard Way kind of book: something which pushes you to practice.

I like book because, contrary to a video:

  • I can go to my own pace.
  • I can jump easily from one chapter / page / idea to the other.
  • It's way more detailed than most videos.
  • You can take the book the most considered by the community.

I wrote about that here if somebody is interested. I learned C, PHP, Golang and Clojure with books, plus many, many other stuff.

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l222p

Thanks for sharing!