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A little off topic, but that is some terrible art on the book cover.
by nullbyte 7y ago
A little off topic, but that is some terrible art on the book cover.
- reificator 7y ago> A little off topic, but that is some terrible art on the book cover. Relative to other books in the series, or do you object to the "historical fashion" style book covers that publisher tends to use?
- Etheryte 7y agoTo be fair, I don't think I've ever seen a serious, hardcore programming book that looked nice. They're either neutral, or just downright weird [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs#/media/File:SICP_cover.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...
- wutbrodo 7y agoAw man I was gonna hold up SICP as a counterexample
- giorgioz 7y agoegghead.io has some awesome illustration for the courses: https://egghead.io/browse/languages/javascript https://egghead.io/browse/languages/javascript Technical book publishers should just stop hiring ink illustrator that like medieval drawings and get graphic illustrators that like Adobe Illustrator and SVGs