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Comments on Should asking about book recommendations directly connected to software development be on-topic?
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Should asking about book recommendations directly connected to software development be on-topic?
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We have recently received a suggestion to allow questions about recommending books directly connected to software development.
The way I see this now (pros and cons)
Pros:
- allow more questions that help software developers
Cons:
- tend to be open-ended, unless there is not a vast domain (e.g. Java development)
- tend to be opinion based
What do you think? Should we allow such questions?
I respect Alexei for opening a discussion on this, and Lundin for providing hard-won real world experience. I would lik …
4y ago
As someone who spent a lot of time trying to get this to work on Stack Overflow, I would advise against it. Some …
3y ago
Are books special? When I see a question like this, I naturally transform it into a more general question about resou …
3y ago
Are we talking about questions asking for book recommendations, or for a way to share/compile book recommendations? A q …
4y ago
I would argue that book recommendations might fit into "Software documentation" or, considering books a technology in an …
7mo ago
Here is a slightly different suggestion, that may avoid the problems with open ended book recommendations. Book lists …
4y ago
Disclaimer: I am new here, I have not understood the overall policy of the site (yet), I can offer no moderator perspect …
4y ago
>To be a "better" site with helping people learn and grow and figure things out for themselves (instead of only giving t …
3y ago
I've personally benefited from reading books on software development: C# in Depth, Pragmatic Programmer, Clean Code, Ope …
7mo ago
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I would argue that book recommendations might fit into "Software documentation" or, considering books a technology in and of themselves, "Software development tools."
The policy does not appear to have been updated one way or another. In the intervening three years, the web has gotten filled with more slop. Search has been degraded to the point of being pretty much useless and many people (self included) want to hang out in communities that are not Reddit, Hacker News, or some random Discord. Being able to discuss the (typically) high quality information found in books would be helpful.
A tag could be encouraged. I see some folks objecting to the Q&A nature. Perhaps there may be a room for, as others have suggested, a separate category for the community? Perhaps, it could be something like "Discussions." You would then need to determine what is on and off topic for that and manage all the tags as well, but it would keep such questions out of the Q&A feed.
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