(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best web development programming books

> Oh man that's a load of tech

See! My problem is it doesn't feel like that to me.

> I basically think to choose the right tech for my work instead of learning every technologies out there

This is exactly what you SHOULD do! Maybe try something new in your free time now and again if it tickles your fancy. But learning in your free time should always be something fun!

Me, I have used all of the above. Everything up there, I learned mainly on the Job and the main reason I shied away from Zend Framework is that it's the only one I mentioned that I have never used.

Remember: This is 8 years of experience with 7 years beeing the sole developer in a company that became more and more dependend upon my skill plus 4 of those years I was working two jobs.

> How did you deal with degree requirement?

There was none. In my line you had to earn credits to move ahead with your education but if you earned no credits that did not mean you had to exmatriculate.

> That was a bold move and inspiring.

Sorry, I don't understand, what was?

> I use bootstrap sometimes I'm lazy hahahs.

I am too XD. And I do too, mostly on pages where SEO is not quite as important or where the load is high anyway so a couple more kB don't hurt, I try to trim it down as much as possible though.

> KISS DRY is amazing principle.

Full disclose: Not mine! And yeah, I think so too, everytime someone joins me at my desk they giggle because of the Postit with "KISS DRY!" on it that is stuck to my screen. Only other developers understand.

> You have time for playing games now?

I would spend a LOT of time learning earlier in my carrer and I still do when I've found something that's fun to pick up. (Gulp and Sass just made my day! I could not stop playing around until my workflow was perfect. Better than some of my games.) And I always enjoy reading a good Book that hones my craft. The pile of books on my desk is actually higher than my screen.

But back then, and still today, I am a gamer! My weekend will be filled with Arma 3, Stellaris, Kerbal Space Program, Crusader Kings and/or Project Zomboid. But I have shed my addiction to MMORPGs so I guess I'll also be doing laundry and the dishes... bah.

Have a nice weekend.

For those who need a bit of context, here goes. But please keep this thread general, it's less about me (actually, not at all about me) than it is about Drupal 8!

So, personally, the road so far:

I've just begun to learn Drupal 8 (been waiting on that official release to rely on a feature-freezed core).

I took a simple YouTube "Beginner Tutorial" from OSTraining in 62 small parts that most of you must be aware of. So now I have a rookie understanding of some the basic jargon ─ content type, fields, views, vocabularies and so on ─ and skimmed quickly through very basic features. Not a clue about the file structure, though.

As for books I can't seem to find much:

• the Apress series (Beginning Drupal 8 and Enterprise Drupal 8 Development)
  
  
• and the O'Reilly Programmer's Guide to Drupal.
  
  Re-edited in Nov 2015 so I assume it's Drupal-8 compliant.
  
  I also tried many times to learn on Drupal.org's documentation but I must say I find it hard to digest, let alone put the pieces together. This is not just criticism, in a constructive perspective I'm actually thinking of offering my writing skills for said documentation of the project, once I get a good grasp of what I'd call the "Drupal Core System".
  
  So what are your recommendations? My specific goals are the usual:
  
  
• Extensive understanding of the Drupal Core "main feats" (I feel I currently have a basic understanding of said main features).
  
  
• Should probably include full knowledge/control over CSS/JS-y (Ajax etc.) theming, especially for a wanabee frontend dev like me.
  
  
• Quick but comprehensive overview of everything in Drupal Core. Notably interested in Drupal internal (admin) references, such as the use of <front> to reference a page here, or now to reference today's date, etc.
  
  (I'm thinking a good starter book should cover both the above)
  
  
• Module development. If I understand correctly, this is how one should properly extend Core functionality in order to meet a client's needs. I'm all for OSS so I figure why confine developed stuff to myself when I can share and eventually get help and mentorship on how to do it the right way.
  
  I assume it's mostly done in PHP but are there popular alternatives? I'd really like to work on something else than PHP (mostly because it's easy and not structuring enough for a beginner like me, or so I've heard. I like to learn the hard way, too).
  
  
• Enterprise integration. I'm approaching this self-training from a career change and entreprenarial perspective, so everything that bridges a typical business environment to a Drupal website (intranet, B2B or public) is clearly among my priorities.
  
  Thanks a lot for any answer specific to my needs, but again, I don't wish this thread to be limited to this. :)

Some more learning tools:

• Tuts+ has a number of great coding video tutorials, many of them free. Definitely worth a look.
  
  
• If you like the code-as-you-go kind, check out Code School. It's $30us a month but the courses are more in depth than codecademy.
  
  
• Book wise, Eloquent JavaScript is a good place to start (and its a free download!).
  
  
• Id also recommend JavaScript Enlightenment for advanced beginners, and JavaScript the Good Parts for those with a bit more experience.
  
  
• Another good beginner book is JavaScript & jQuery by Jon Duckett, it's got a great design and is much more illustrative than traditional books.
  
  edited to add links; formatting

Sure, though I've also read people in your position are better at building apps with JS if they're new to it because things like PHP are completely different in how you start growing an app (classical vs prototypal inheritance) not to mention that if you also do PHP instead of just straight JS you're getting used to and learning 2 languages that are completely different in how you code. In either case you're right you have to learn JS anyway, here are the best resources after codeacademy basics stuff:

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide: Activate Your Web Pages (Definitive Guides):

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-Activate-Guides/dp/0596805527/

JavaScript: The Good Parts:

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742/

Programming JavaScript Applications: Robust Web Architecture with Node, HTML5, and Modern JS Libraries:

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-JavaScript-Applications-Architecture-Libraries/dp/1491950293/

A cool talk from last year of the Fluent conference (and the author of that last book) explaining how different something like PHP and JavaScript are and why JS doesn't deserve the bad rap it used to get (He's a pretty cool guy from Adobe and I got to talk to him last week about all of these things we're talking about right now and where web development is heading, and why JS as a single language for the web can work even better):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKCCZTUx0sI

This was a really cool overview on JS today, and you get to see Unreal Tournament and the Unreal 4 engine run in a web browser:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZqhRICne_M

I'd recommend that you continue to avoid scaffolding/boilerplate examples where the stack is preassembled for you. That's a really good idea. But MEAN stack app examples are not common place, so you'll need to broaden your search a tad. I'd recommend building a handful of Node/Express apps utilizing only the basics. Build a Node app. Add in express. Serve up some templated HTML. Maybe add Mongoose in with some simple CRUD functionality via a MongoDB datastore. Build a simple resource API where you can browse to a specific path and interact with data from the database.

After that, you can look up tutorials on Angular and build a handful of stand alone Angular apps with static content. Then when you've got a pretty good idea on how to at least organize the Angular code, start researching ngRoute and ngResource. Build a simple service that simply GETs data from a RESTful URL and presents it. Then slowly extend the service to consume the API you built earlier.

Once you've done this, you're probably best off taking a scaffolding implementation and building out an app from there. MEAN.IO and MEAN.JS are two of the larger more robust implementations -- from the same creator. He focuses on the latter these days and has even written a companion book of sorts which I recommend.

This will help you understand different ways of assembling the four cornerstones of the stack together in a coherent and organized way.

Some resources:

• scotch.io
  
  
• egghead.io
  
  
• 30 Day Challenge (MEAN.JS based)
  
  
• Jesse Warden's excellent Beginners Guide to Software Development

Here's my list of the classics:

General Computing

• But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone
  
  
• The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
  
  
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
  
  
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
  
  Computer Science
  
  
• The New Turing Omnibus: Sixty-Six Excursions in Computer Science
  
  
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, 2nd Edition (aka The Dragon Book)
  
  
• The Art of Computer Programming
  
  
• Algorithms, 4th Edition
  
  
• Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (aka CLRS)
  
  
• Essential Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms Using Python and C#, 2nd Edition
  
  
• Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People
  
  
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, 2nd Edition (aka SICP, available for free on the MIT website)
  
  
• Discrete Mathematics with Applications, 4th Edition
  
  Software Development
  
  
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann
  
  
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (aka The Gang of Four)
  
  
• Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving
  
  
• The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition, 2nd Edition
  
  
• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
  
  
• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, 2nd Edition
  
  
• The Design of Everyday Things
  
  
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
  
  
• Programming Pearls, 2nd Edition
  
  
• Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual
  
  
• Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams
  
  
• Hacker's Delight, 2nd Edition
  
  
• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, 3rd Edition
  
  Case Studies
  
  
• The Soul of a New Machine
  
  
• Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
  
  
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
  
  
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet
  
  
• Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer, 3rd Edition
  
  Employment
  
  
• Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions, 6th Edition
  
  
• The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide: How to Learn Programming Languages Quickly, Ace Your Programming Interview, and Land Your Software Developer Dream Job
  
  
• The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
  
  
• The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development
  
  Language-Specific
  
  C
  
  
• The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition
  
  Python
  
  
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners, 2nd Edition
  
  
• Python Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming
  
  
• Python Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science, 3rd Edition
  
  
• Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways to Write Better Python
  
  C#
  
  
• The C# Player's Guide, 3rd Edition
  
  C++
  
  
• The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition
  
  
• Starting Out with C++: from Control Structures to Objects, 9th Edition
  
  Java
  
  
• Introduction to Java Programming and Data Structures: Comprehensive Version, 11th Edition
  
  
• [Java: A Beginner's Guide](https://www.amazon.com/Java-Beginners-Seventh-Herbert-Schildt/dp/1259589315/, 7th Edition)
  
  
• Java: The Complete Reference, 11th Edition
  
  
• Core Java Volume I - Fundamentals, 11th Edition
  
  
• Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Objects, 6th Edition
  
  
• Effective Java, 3rd Edition
  
  Linux Shell Scripts
  
  
• The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction, 2nd Edition
  
  
• Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, OS X, and UNIX Systems, 2nd Edition
  
  
• Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting Bible
  
  
• Mastering Linux Shell Scripting
  
  Web Development
  
  
• Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web Graphics, 5th Edition
  
  
• Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming, 3rd Edition (also available for free on the author's website)
  
  
• JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development
  
  
• HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites
  
  
• You Don't Know JS: Up & Going
  
  Ruby and Rails
  
  
• Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails, 4th Edition (Note: this book is somewhat out of date compared to the live version on the author's website.)
  
  
• The Well Grounded Rubyist, 3rd Edition
  
  
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer
  
  
• Agile Web Development with Rails 5.1
  
  
• Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, 4th Edition
  
  
• Eloquent Ruby
  
  Assembly
  
  
• Assembly Language for x86 Processors, 8th Edition

Just started learning CoffeeScript not too long ago and I've read this book: CoffeeScript-Accelerated-Development

It's a pretty good book to start with I think especially if you don't know anything about javascript. It's recommended that you should know some javascript before hand to understand the basic principles since coffeescript compiles to javascript.

Also, I started reading Programming in CoffeeScript which I think is an even better book than the first one I linked.

Feel free to check out coffeescript.org as it has good tutorials and has a "Try CoffeeScript" area to which you can play around with the language to see if you'll like it.

I think you're on the right path with Flask if you really want to expose this information with a web (HTTP/S) interface. You'll learn lots, but may also open your environments up to security risks.

If your ultimate goal is to share with other teams, I'd look towards implementing a shared code repository first (GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket, etc.) You could start there because you should use code repositories and versioning. You can move on to some into Flask, HTML, CSS, and Javascript afterwards. I can easily recommend Front-End Web Development as a good place to start for beginner web learning. They also use Bootstrap in their example projects.

It's not an article but when I was researching a few months ago RESTful Web APIs seemed to be the de facto book. I thought it was very good and an easier, quicker read than most domain specific programming books I've read recently.

http://www.amazon.com/RESTful-Web-APIs-Leonard-Richardson/dp/1449358063

Here's a few links, I have all these in a folder and I try to make a habit of right clicking and opening all in tabs being the first thing I do when I open my web browser, before I get distracted with reddit.

http://sixrevisions.com/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

http://net.tutsplus.com/

http://psd.tutsplus.com/

http://css-tricks.com/

http://www.alistapart.com/

http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/

http://wp.tutsplus.com/

http://www.netmagazine.com/

Out of those the most helpful for newcomers would probably be,
http://net.tutsplus.com/sessions/web-design-from-scratch/ which has already been suggested by what3v3r.

There's also http://teamtreehouse.com/ and http://www.codecademy.com if you want a more complete learning experience. As far as printed books go, I absolutely think they still have their uses but I always check the date a book was published on Amazon before buying, if it was pre-2011 there's a chance the information in it could be looking a little dated and a newer edition may be just around the corner. I've got this one on my shelf: http://www.amazon.co.uk/HTML-XHTML-All-Dummies-Computers/dp/0470537558/ref=pd_cp_b_1 and it covers a very broad area at a level suitable for a beginner.

If I was starting again I'd probably go for this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/HTML-XHTML-CSS-Dummies-Computers/dp/0470916591/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top followed by something about Javascript/JQuery and perhaps some PHP/MySQL afterwards, not forgetting ofcourse the increasing use of HTML5 and CSS3!! However, having typed all that you could probably learn just as much, and more, without spending a penny. There's some excellent learning resources available on the web, it's just a matter of finding them.

I suggest the following resources:

Travery Media: https://www.youtube.com/user/TechGuyWeb

He covers React and Docker among MANY things.

Perhaps start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnTQVlqmDQ0

If you like the guy's presentation he has complete Udemy courses.

Perhaps you may also want to learn about microservices: https://microservices.io/ before tackling Kubernetes.

My background is similar to yours so for my current project I using the following Stack: MongoDB, Spring Boot for a RESTFul back end and React. This book helped me a lot but it was not enough: https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Stack-Development-Spring-React/dp/1838822364/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=spring+boot+react&qid=1565195599&s=gateway&sr=8-2 Although very superficially, it covers all the pieces needed, like authentication using JWT and deploying to Heroku.

You don't need no know EVERYTHING, it is actually impossible, for example, l say pick a front end framework between Angular, React or Vue and learn only one and stick with Java for your back end. Oh, and don't believe all the hype... I see a lot of people trying to shoehorn stuff into their projects because it is the cool new thing.

I enjoyed the frog book https://www.amazon.com/Dart-Programming-Language-Gilad-Bracha/dp/0321927702

Super concise like the K&R C book.

I wonder with Dart 2, and changes to the type system, if it will be updated.

My condolences on the business (been there, lived through that). Some good, advanced Python 3 books include:

Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language (2nd Edition)

A subset of the above - Advanced Python 3 Programming Techniques


Python in Practice: Create Better Programs Using Concurrency, Libraries, and Patterns

Thank you! Yes, I think it's more the analytical side of computers that has me nervous. I can't even say it's confusing because I haven't given it a fair shot. Because I just don't know where to begin. Being more of a creative, Adobe was not too difficult to navigate, although certain terminology had me Googling like a mad woman. I did build my own Wordpress site and, although I'm happy with it I just feel a little hacky considering how ignorant I am to the jargon. I mean, can I even use the words "built my own site" seeing as how it's just a theme with lots of plugins and widgets? Could I actually sell that type of service if requested?

I seem to notice "html5" a lot so I guess will try and start there...

Wondering if I should just go ahead with a dummies order.
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