Free to Choose ebook deal reveals the programmer zeitgeist

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I don't know if I would read too much into this. Maybe programmers already have books on subject X so only buy subjects Y and Z during this deal.

One point from the comments I did find interesting, it says as much about what areas oreilly is still the top tech publisher in (case of python).

However from any perspective I found the fact a data analysis book was #1 very telling. I find big data interesting and see it discussed here a fair bit, but I never assume the hot topics here hold interest in the wider developer community. Guess I was wrong this time.

I'd be very interested in seing the raw numbers, I'm guessing there is probably some wide differences between 1 and 25.

It's cool to see Land of Lisp on the there. Good book, get it while it's cheap.

I also got, Algorithm in a nutshell and Real World Haskell. I had a lot of the other books on the list already.

Anyone care to share their list of purchases?

I grabbed Making Software. All the other stuff I know of from OReilly I've gotten on prior sales (especially the big all ebooks $9.99 sale a while back). Though Hadoop 2nd ed came out but I haven't made it through first ed yet there.

I just got The Land of Lisp yesterday, but I've also got Learning Python and REST in Practice from that list from previous 9.99$ deals.

I got Code, from Charles Petzold, Code Complete (finally!), and Gamestorming.

I prefer to get my fix on specific tecnologies online.

for me it was programming ios4 as i recently picked up Clojure in Action and The Joy of Clojure (MEAP) at Manning for a like wise good deal

I used the code: clojure35 (35% discount code) for that and paid $37.37

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