<story><title>Programming book authors: put all the code in the book</title><url>https://logicgrimoire.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/an-extreme-antipattern-for-programming-books/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InfiniteRand</author><text>Is it feasible to attach a usb drive to a book these days?</text></item><item><author>oytis</author><text>Just glue an envelope with a CD to the backcover, this is what people were doing before your fancy internets became a thing.&lt;p&gt;But really, if you a writing a book on a modern language, and your code has external dependencies, chances are it will not build 5 years forward, even if there are no URLs directly in the book.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdw5204</author><text>A cheap USB drive sells for under $10 and you can seal a book in plastic so I&amp;#x27;d imagine it&amp;#x27;d be feasible to just add the $5-$10 to the price of the book. People who buy books, especially programming books, generally aren&amp;#x27;t very price sensitive anyway.</text></comment>
<story><title>Programming book authors: put all the code in the book</title><url>https://logicgrimoire.wordpress.com/2023/12/05/an-extreme-antipattern-for-programming-books/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>InfiniteRand</author><text>Is it feasible to attach a usb drive to a book these days?</text></item><item><author>oytis</author><text>Just glue an envelope with a CD to the backcover, this is what people were doing before your fancy internets became a thing.&lt;p&gt;But really, if you a writing a book on a modern language, and your code has external dependencies, chances are it will not build 5 years forward, even if there are no URLs directly in the book.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>schaefer</author><text>How about Micro SD?</text></comment>