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180 points beryilma | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.206s | source
1. TZubiri ◴[] No.41910449[source]
Taking a look at the index, a couple of issues which would make it not in my interest:

1- very heavy on process management. Not against studying it, but 70% is a lot. Also it isn't a very objective area of knowledge, there's hundreds of ways to skin the pig, which probably explains why it takes so much space.

2- a whole chapter about architecture, which isn't a very well regarded as an independent branch of computer science/systems engineering knowledge.

3- at last, in the technical section, databases shares a section along with fundamentals like processes and operating systems?

All in all it looks like a dictionary/checkbox built by a comittee rather than a consistent perspective on software.

And as a textbook it's got problems as well as mentioned, it has a doubtful taxonomy and too heavy on process engineering.

Tl;dr: I'm getting Orange Eating 101 vibes https://youtu.be/pR6z-gm5_cY?t=38&si=F7knCRNcFET7nki7

Anyways, my 2 cents, won't be reading it.