Whoring for amazon affiliate money would be fine if he were making recommendations based on knowledge and experience, but this is just plain whoring for change regardless of its impact on readers.
A bad programming book can set you back by wasting your time. These books might not be bad, but how would he know, without reading them?
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Mm. He's adding books to the list he hasn't read, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8714541
Whoring for amazon affiliate money would be fine if he were making recommendations based on knowledge and experience, but this is just plain whoring for change regardless of its impact on readers.
A bad programming book can set you back by wasting your time. These books might not be bad, but how would he know, without reading them?
99% of the knowledge on that list can be found on http://greenteapress.com/
and the pygame stuff here http://thepythongamebook.com/en:pygame:start
no affiliate links on either.