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A happy coincidence of
The Praggies
and O'Reilly
both doing bookamajigs focused on general, programmery, learning. O'Reilly's is an interesting
take in that it is a collaborative, wiki-based venture. Andy Hunt's is triply
interesting to me as I did my graduate work on the stuff he is writing about,
if in a very different context (formal education).
Refactoring Your Wetware starts out with a nice review of the
Dreyfus model (I grabbed the beta book) but is still mostly not-yet-written,
so Andy's approach to progressing through the stages isn't clear, yet. I'm
very much looking forward to seeing how he approaches and presents the
long view of learning.
The O'Reilly approach hits close to home for me as I spent a lot of
time experimenting with material from the
Portland Pattern Repository when I transitioned back into programmering
from teaching and realized I didn't actually remember much! Anything that
helps self-taught folks get better is teh win.
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