Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?

20 points by Shosty123 8y ago ↗ HN

A continuation of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660086 which has been incredibly useful in learning a new language or technology.

I recently finished a book called Progressive Web Apps with React which took the reader through building a PWA chat application using firebase with push notifications and such.

https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/progressive-web-apps-react

Also, this one for Vue:

https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/vuejs-2-web-development-projects

I just finished the first chapter which has you build a markdown editor with Vue.

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e9 8y ago ↗

https://www.amazon.com/Black-Video-Game-Console-Design/dp/06...

rwieruch 8y ago ↗

In this book, The Road to learn React [0], you will learn the fundamentals of React while building a larger application with sorting, caching and searching an API.

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/the-road-to-learn-react

starlord97 8y ago ↗

Big Nerd Ranch for iOS app development. https://www.bignerdranch.com/books/ios-programming/?gclid

anthonygore 8y ago ↗

If you're interested in learning Vue I can offer both my own course and book as recommendations.

The course demos three substantial Vue.js projects:

https://www.udemy.com/vuejs-2-essentials/

The book is about full-stack Vue & Laravel and includes one large project, an Airbnb clone:

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/full-stack-...

hugja 8y ago ↗

Retro Game Dev: C64 Edition[1] build two games (shooter/platformer) in 6502 Assembly Language for a Commodore 64 emulator. Some other similar books are Making 8-bit Arcade Games in C[2] and Making Games for the Atari 2600[3].

- [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692980652/

- [2] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1545484759/

- [3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1541021304/