Do you read 1000-odd pages cover-to-cover tolmuts on programming?

Question

Books

If you bought a fat book on programming, would you read it cover to cover?

Answer 1

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talmud

Answer 2

Depends on the book. To read volumes of Knuth from cover to cover is below average pleasure, of course. But some (Lucas, Stevens, McConnell) I would have read 5,000 pages.

Answer 3

1000 - I don’t know, but I read 900 more than once. For example: www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/5508646/

Answer 4

At the beginning of training, you have to read the entire book. Further, as you develop, you can safely skip some chapters or quickly look through them, paying attention only to new material.

Answer 5

Such as Flanagan's JavaScript - with pleasure.

Answer 6

Basically, I pull out some chapters on topics that interest me. I already know a lot about these “talmouths”.

Answer 7

I read Rollings and Morris' Game Design and Architecture cover to cover .
I re-read individual chapters from time to time.

Answer 8

Chapters on some specialized things in practice I do not need (for example, the development of desktop UI or work with an exotic database such as MS SQL :)) only diagonally with my eyes.

Answer 9

If the books are more informational, for example, "Operating Systems" by Tanenbaum or "Computer Systems" by Bryant, then you can read them from cover to cover, the information is such that you need to know and comprehend it all.
But Stroustrup of the same and similar books I read fluently, to understand the big picture. And then, as needed, I read individual chapters that are needed at a particular moment.
I generally keep Kormen as a reference book. It's hard to read it cover to cover.
I read McConnell like a fiction book, he writes well.

Answer 10

Like they said, it depends on the book. I'm reading Linux Programming Interface right now. Slowly, thoughtfully, 10 pages a day.

Answer 11

I read, and in the subway, that is. I carry these Talmuds with me :)

Answer 12

I'm currently reading Learning Python by Mark Lutz. Such a healthy Talmud for 1200 pages. I read in full, because I know the language is not very good.

Answer 13

No. I'll take a look when I have questions.

Answer 14

I often read, and if I go somewhere, I take books with me to read them on the way.