One of the most annoying things I find about being in the field of Computer Science: you have to read thick book after thick book, just to stay ahead or on par with technology.

Oh, technology x came out. New item appears in to-do storyboard: "read book x". Oh, only 900 pages huh? Oh, deadline this week huh? There goes my weekend.
What's this? After having read book x, now I have to read book y and also read about design patterns again?

Sigh.

Book? What is that? xD

Why bother.. Better enjoy your life

@netikras I have to maintain my job. I can't just say: oh, I'm not going to study a new framework customers are paying for.

@CaptainRant selling other vendors' frameworks? That must be a hugging exhausting job. And a weird sounding one ofc :)

I didn't think it's a part of your job. Sry

@PublicByte Not know, they want to use them. I'm developing with those technologies.

@netikras It's quite normal for a consultant to constantly have to study new frameworks and technologies because he needs to be marketable to the new clients that he's going to work for.

Aren’t 9 out of 10 new things irrelevant within a year‘s time? If it is still relevant after that it might be worth learning, otherwise safely skip it.

@sawmurai In this case, the technology will be used for probably years to come.

You need to put effort into it, which is true for pretty much any field.

@RememberMe People in other fields don't need to go home and spend their evenings reading books about their work. They just don't.

@CaptainRant Well, in medical fields, they do, but I digress.

@CaptainRant it's true for pretty much every technical field or place where there's some advancement going on.

@RememberMe Yeah, I was referring to hard labor and factory jobs, cleaning jobs, etc. Those exist too.

Never red a coding book in my life.
Whenever there is a new language i create a software out of it and debug it (since it wont work from the first time) and google errors and end up materise it.
It may take few days or 2 weeks, but in the end i get to get the "how it works" and the syntax.
Deep down, all of them function the same way.

I will admit I enjoy reading programming books but you don’t need to read the books to keep up. Read a blog post, watch a tutorial, read some documentation and play around. Books are helpful and can give excellent insights but going through thicc books isn’t the only effective method to keep up

I've spent so much time on a book that by the end of it I needed a newer book haha!!! Love having that library though, it's like trophies

@Bubbles Truly successful people (like a Neurologist I used to date) will tell you that a mere idea of something isn't enough for the brain to successfully process things. You need the whole picture.

It's the same reason why back at university I needed to use all senses and resources: watching, listening, writing, hearing, video, tutorials, books, fundamentals, everything. It's not normal for a person to fully grasp something by having minimal information. Sure, you can do inference, but no.