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No idea what your background is, but since you just bought four books, make sure you're spending more time reading and writing code than reading books. Some people fall into the theory trap and don't spend enough time making use of that theory.



Agreed. Reading books is great if it's replacing Twitter and Reddit time. It's not great if it's replacing coding time.


> I'm also approaching this as a technical writer, figuring out what exactly makes Kernighan's books so good.

I am docs lead for https://pigweed.dev

I will probably also eventually post my findings to https://technicalwriting.dev




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