Show HN: I wrote a book: The Elements of Code

11 pointsposted 5 months ago
by johnmwilkinson

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4 Comments

rriley

5 months ago

Love that you were inspired by "The Elements of Style". I scanned through the pages of the PDF and looks very promising. Concise and full of great advice. Thanks for sharing this with the world!

rasulkireev

4 months ago

Awesome, thanks for writing this!

l___l

5 months ago

I wish there was a similar book for writing software that is difficult to write.

vjosullivan

5 months ago

The Law of Triviality (aka bike shedding) applies as much to writing books as anything else. You don't have to be an expert to explain easy stuff to beginners. On the other hand, you have to be very advanced to explain difficult stuff to experts.