Hey everyone! Just one quick question: is it vital that I have the most recent books on the languages I’m trying to learn? I just checked out Beginning HTML5 and CS3 - The Web Evolved (2012) from my local library, and I’m wondering whether it might be a bit outdated. Do languages change much in 4 years, or is there no need to be concerned until a newer version of a language is created? Thanks in advance for your aid/responses. 
I wouldn’t worry too much about it, courses at universities are often updated only once every few years and nobody is complaining. I guess there were a lot of more incompatibility issues back in 2012 so you may find some workarounds / fallbacks for older browsers, but I haven’t read the book so don’t know if that’s the case.
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OK! Are there any books that you’ve read that you would especially recommend for a beginner?
I bought this set
nice books, very easy to read, colourful, look more like cookbooks than programming books
However:
In my opinion, I learn 5% from books and 95% by actually doing something here, on FCC or by completing courses on Udemy. Books are good if you are on a train or plane without your laptop but I think we should be spending as much time as we can doing challenges and projects, that must be the best way to learn.
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One could argue that it only has to be recent as the most major update that is widely accpeted - whenever that was - for the language you’re working at.
For instance, Rails 5 is about to come out of beta but Rails 4 will still be used by a lot of people for a while (and supported for a while) so you can work with Rails 4 without worrying about 5 (but hell action cable looks SO cool)
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Definitely agree. I usually turn to books when I need to give my eyes a break from the computer.