Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
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fsloth · Feb 11, 2020
The entire book Structure and Intrerpretation of Computer Programs is like that.
brainlessdev · Feb 11, 2020
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, where the reader implements a Lisp
linkel · Feb 12, 2020
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Kleppmann is frequently recommended and I got a lot out of the book
signa11 · Feb 12, 2020
this: https://pragprog.com/book/jbtracer/the-ray-tracer-challenge is a pretty comprehensive.
clmul · Feb 11, 2020
Physically Based Rendering is basically a complete guide to building a modern physically based rendering engine