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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 …
2y ago
Are we talking about questions asking for book recommendations, or for a way to share/compile book recommendations? A q …
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As someone who spent a lot of time trying to get this to work on Stack Overflow, I would advise against it. Some …
1y ago
Are books special? When I see a question like this, I naturally transform it into a more general question about resou …
1y ago
Disclaimer: I am new here, I have not understood the overall policy of the site (yet), I can offer no moderator perspect …
2y ago
>To be a "better" site with helping people learn and grow and figure things out for themselves (instead of only giving t …
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Here is a slightly different suggestion, that may avoid the problems with open ended book recommendations. Book lists …
2y ago
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I respect Alexei for opening a discussion on this, and Lundin for providing hard-won real world experience. I would like to put in a "pro", on the grounds that "I read this book and I'm a better programmer for it" is information that directly supports the codidact mission of helping each other learn. It's related to the old observation that bad IT people have walls full of certifications and good ones have shelves full of books. A fair question is how to maintain adequate quality and I'm short of concrete suggestions at the moment. Lundin's attempt to limit recommendations to things the person posting has actually read seems like a reasonable minimum.
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