[xqb64]

Yeah. My favorite are books that guide you through implementing complex systems projects from scratch, like Nora Sandler's "Writing a C compiler", or Sy Brand's "Building a Debugger". I wish they produced A LOT more of them.

[iberator]

Those are some new and very very shallow books. There better one's from 90" and 80".

[xqb64]

The central point behind this type of books isn't so much to build an enterprise-grade production-ready thing, but rather to bridge the delta between zero and having a working thing of sufficiently large complexity, which inevitably exists for someone who had never been there before. Having that in mind, I think these books are very valuable.

[cultofmetatron]

much like swimming, it helps to start in the shallow end before you tread into deeper waters.

[eager_learner]

care to name a few such good oldies?