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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours alongside endless variations offering to teach C, SQL, Ruby, Algorithms, and so on in a few days or hours. The Amazon advanced search for [ title: teach, yourself, hours, since: 2000 and found 512 such books…
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On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jan 15, 2024 | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) by janchorowski | 586 | 302 |
| Jun 6, 2021 | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) by MindGods | 253 | 115 |
| Oct 21, 2022 | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) by memorable | 187 | 112 |
| Apr 9, 2013 | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) by llambda | 186 | 86 |
| Jul 26, 2026 | Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998) by vinhnx | 185 | 132 |
| Mar 13, 2018 | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) by tinderliker | 184 | 51 |
| Jul 26, 2025 | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) by smartmic | 179 | 102 |
| Jul 27, 2019 | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) by saranshk | 174 | 87 |
| Jan 8, 2012 | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig (2001) by samaraga | 131 | 29 |
| Jan 18, 2010 | Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years. by djshah | 88 | 32 |
| Apr 17, 2015 | Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998) by shubhamjain | 67 | 61 |
| Aug 16, 2007 | Norvig: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by mk | 54 | 7 |
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