Podcast
How I Built This with Guy Raz
The speaker wrote this book out of stubbornness during his freshman year of college as a rewrite of a terrible textbook for his computer science class. It was described as a 'spite book' that cataloged tricks and fixes for common programming mistakes in early languages.
So freshman year, out of stubbornness, I wrote what was basically a spite book. I rewrote the textbook for my intern to computer science class from the perspective of a student.
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The speaker wrote this book out of stubbornness during his freshman year of college as a rewrite of a terrible textbook for his computer science class. It was described as a 'spite book' that cataloged tricks and fixes for common programming mistakes in early languages.
So freshman year, out of stubbornness, I wrote what was basically a spite book. I rewrote the textbook for my intern to computer science class from the perspective of a student.
And that book turned out to be pretty popular and actually got me a publisher.
I mean, it wasn't so much a how to program. It was how to fix every mistake that you're about to encounter.