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Green Tea Press is a personal blog at greenteapress.com about programming, science and math. Since 2007, 239 different Hacker News readers have linked it 342 times, most often “Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist ”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Often recommended · 22 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Green Tea Press for free, open-source textbooks by Allen Downey, mainly Think Python and the Think statistics books, and recommend them to learners.
- Recommended for · 22 comments
- Free open-source Think books by Allen Downey, called good, awesome and recommended for Python and statistics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Free books by Allen B. Downey on Python, statistics, Bayesian methods, data science and more. Read them online, download PDFs, or buy print editions.
Most-linked posts?
- Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist 16 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2008-11-27
- /thinkpython/15 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2008-02-23
- Think Python 2e10 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2019-05-15
- The Little Book of Semaphores9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2009-01-23
- Green Tea Press: Free Books by Allen B. Downey9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2018-07-07
- The Little Book of Semaphores8 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2019-07-21
- Green Tea Press – Free Books by Allen Downey8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-08-16
- Think Python 2nd Edition by Allen B. Downey8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2016-07-01
- /thinkpython/thinkpython.html8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2010-03-03
- Think Bayes - Bayesian Statistics Made Simple7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2012-10-10
What Hacker News says?
Here's a nice introduction/exercise which is part of a python tutorial. http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/thinkpython014...
Comment linking /thinkpython/html/thinkpython014.html
on “Show HN: Markov chains explained visually”Submitted Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple (2012) as a story · 404 points
HN discussionhttps://greenteapress.com/wp/think-stats-2e/
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on “A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics”Submitted Textbook manifesto (2016) as a story · 369 points
HN discussionOK, you don't build a complete project, but it's a similar approach: Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/ Here, you learn statistics by implementing statistics functions in Python along the way and use them to solve the questions in the book.
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on “Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building one project?”Submitted Think OS: A Brief Introduction to Operating Systems as a story · 257 points
HN discussion"The Little Book of Semaphores" also belongs here. https://greenteapress.com/wp/semaphores/
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on “Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online”Submitted The Little Book of Semaphores [pdf] as a story · 226 points
HN discussionHi! As a member of the Python community, could you please pick a better textbook than Dive into Python? Think Python is a far better book, off the top of my head, but nearly anything's better than DiP for people not acquainted with the language. ( http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ )
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on “SICP is Under Attack”Submitted Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers as a story · 213 points
HN discussionLove Think Python, I have recommended it to so many learners: it balances the various concerns of a new programmer book really well. Allen Downey has a bunch of other books with somewhat similar approaches too https://greenteapress.com/wp/ -- some I do think he might have gone too far in the low-rigor side, but all the ones I've reviewed have been pretty good. (I was sharing a table at a conference with Allen some t…
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on “Think Python, 3rd Edition”Submitted Think Bayes - Bayesian Statistics Made Simple as a story · 192 points
HN discussionI love these books … in my case Think Perl6 (now Think Raku) was a real eye opener. A quick scan of the new Python 3rd edition looks like it is quite dumbed down - which is probably appropriate for Python. I highly recommend the intro to Functional Programming in Raku (chapter 14). https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-perl-6/
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on “Think Python, 3rd Edition”Submitted Think Stats, using python to learn stats as a story · 179 points
HN discussionHere's a good "play with turtles" chapter in an online textbook if anyone is interested: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/book005.html Did porting your project to github mess up the formatting, or did you actually use 8-space tabs?! Because I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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on “Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything”Submitted The Little Book of Semaphores (2016) [pdf] as a story · 150 points
HN discussionGreen Tea Press has some good ones, "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" one with Java and one with Python, they're open source books so some people have produced more interactive (browser) books. https://greenteapress.com/wp/
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on “Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science?”Submitted Think OS: A Brief Introduction to Operating Systems as a story · 143 points
HN discussionGonna throw in one of my own picks for Concurrency, I landed on this book a few months ago called “The Little Book of Semaphores” on synchronization with examples in python: https://greenteapress.com/wp/semaphores/
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on “A non-standard book list for software developers”Submitted Free book on Statistics for Programmers as a story · 142 points
HN discussionThere's a series of books called "Thinking ..." that aims for exactly this. http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/ http://www.greenteapress.com/index.html
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on “Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks”Submitted Green Tea Press: Free Books by Allen B. Downey as a story · 83 points
HN discussionI studied probability during my undergrad (and high school) using dice, coins and other such things. It made sense to me but there was a dark area in my understanding. It felt like a blind spot and I could never get into it. In the final year of engineering, we had someone do a quick refresher on probability as a prelude to a longer course on pattern recognition and he described the whole thing using set theory (Ven…
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on “Probability Theory for Scientists and Engineers”Submitted Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist as a story · 48 points
HN discussionHi, I'm 30 and trying to relearn the math courses I did in college (Computer Science degree) and more. I am currently using Standford & MIT's open couseware. I feel like I am moving slower than I would if I were in a course but able to grasp the material better at this rate... I made good grades in my math courses but like you, I didn't have to use them in software engineering that much. I would like to get into a f…
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on “Ask HN: How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?”Submitted Learn Perl the Hard Way as a story · 45 points
HN discussionO'Rielly's 'Think Stats' is freely available in html/pdf online and is quite good. http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkstats/
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?”Submitted The Little Book of Semaphores as a story · 43 points
HN discussionhttp://greenteapress.com/wp/think-perl-6/
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on “Why I’m Learning Perl 6”Submitted The Little Book of Semaphores as a story · 24 points
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