[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Programming Audio Book Recommendations
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Ask HN: Programming Audio Book Recommendations
I listen to audiobooks when driving, mowing the lawn or other
manual tasks. I've found some great books such as clean
architecture and the pragmatic programmer. I've also found some
terrible books such as grokking algorithms. I'm sure this
community will have some recommendations to help avoid the terrible
books.
Author : xupybd
Score : 32 points
Date : 2021-07-19 05:37 UTC (17 hours ago)
| dolmen wrote:
| Changelog.com has multiple weekly podcasts about programming:
| http://changelog.com/podcasts
|
| As a Go programmer I recommend Go Time:
| http://changelog.com/gotime There is a huge archive of past
| episodes (last episode is #188) that are as interesting (or more)
| than the latest ones.
| sigg3 wrote:
| Which Clean Architecture, specifically?
|
| Cheers!
| prab97 wrote:
| Robert C Martin
| smithza wrote:
| _On The Metal_ is a great pod for hw /sw interface stories.
| snarkypixel wrote:
| Biographies of developers or successful/failed projects are great
| to listen to I.e. Masters of Doom and the like.
| b33j0r wrote:
| Wil Wheaton reads Masters of Doom, almost worth it for his
| impressions alone. "Sid Meier's Memoir" is great along the same
| genre.
| soneil wrote:
| I find that interesting because Wil is usually a reader I'll
| go out of my way to avoid. It just doesn't work for me.
| (Which really confuses me because I've been a fan of pretty
| much everything else he's touched - I certainly don't
| identify with the toxicity that seems to follow him around.
| Just doesn't work for me in audiobooks.)
| swyx wrote:
| My careers book focuses on the non technical side of technical
| careers and has an audio book! https://www.learninpublic.org/
| [deleted]
| machinehermiter wrote:
| I second Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
|
| Deep Learning with Python by Francois Chollet I think works as an
| audiobook as well.
|
| I am a big non-fiction audio book fan and so much depends on the
| voice actor. I bad read can ruin the best content while Robertson
| Dean made Alan Greenspan's The Age of Turbulence into an
| enthralling adventure story.
| billti wrote:
| I'm currently listening to "Designing Data-Intensive
| Applications" [1] on my commute and it really does work well as
| an Audio Book (I can attest to the positive reviews). Highly
| recommended if you are dealing with any requirements in the space
| (scale, replication, consistency, SQL vs NoSQL, etc.)
|
| [1] https://www.audible.com/pd/Designing-Data-Intensive-
| Applicat...
| thomasthomas wrote:
| Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New
| Industries and Augmented Our Reality
| chana_masala wrote:
| I agree that the Pragmatic Programmer is well done in it's audio
| form, and I also agree that Grokking Algorithms is terrible.
|
| I am currently listening Designing Data Intensive Applications
| and it's phenomenally done - the author clearly worked with the
| narrator to adapt the content to audio format, and the narrator
| seems to have experience or familiarity with the subject because
| he pronounces the technical jargon very naturally.
|
| I hope to find other software related audiobooks as good as DDAI
| is.
| MathCodeLove wrote:
| I loved "Algorithms to Live By" by Brian Christian and tom
| Griffiths. It's not quite as focused on the technical side of
| things as the books you listed, but I still enjoyed it quite a
| bit.
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