I don't know how they do it. Can AI write anything coherent that's 200 pages long?

Avoid buying books written after 2022.

For Rust specifically, the official book should get you up to speed. There's also Rust by Example. If you want to get into unsafe, the Rustonomic is good. Rust Atomics and Locks, if you're into low-level stuff. All of them are free, by the way.

Also, might be controversial, but you can just pirate books you aren't sure about. If a book turns out to be good, then buy it to support the author.

This is the case across the literary spectrum really. I’d avoid Amazon for book needs.

Yeah, it's a plague. The nonfiction titles are similarly packed with authors whose entire careers seem to be churning out as much cheap, barely readable shit as they can.

The print equivalent of the 15-second Sora clip on Tiktok.

The title is quite an understatement. "Introduction" should be replaced with "everything you might possibly come across in your IT career". I remember it being a very good book, but very theory-focused and hard. Even if you just read it through for the explanations and exercises and skip over the heavy theorems and proofs, you'll know more than most professional IT workers in the field. If you are considering to buy it maybe borrow it from a library first, because it might be too difficult to go through alone if you are not used to the academic writing style.

There's only one great choice and that's CLRS ("intro to algorithms") - if you know this book & did the exercises, you can just skip college

but for hobby?

Just a little masochism.

I do have some academic background. I would like to do a bit more than the basic build a dog class to rebuilt my brain a bit.

The Pragmatic Programmer's one would be appropriate.

Both the industry-standard one ( can't remember, it's a bit of a boat-anchor in mass, now in 4th edition? ), which is the one for serious hardcore programmers, & the Addison-Wesley one are good, the one which is in subsections, so you have to buy 4 or more books to get the whole thing, is good,

but for hobby?

The pragprog one's probably the best.

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