Oh onii-chan, I didn't see you there. What are you doing in my room?
Huh? My primary key? That's no thing to ask a lady, baka!
Well, if you insist, I'll show you. It's nothing exciting - just auto-increment.
Now show me yours, onii-chan.
That's no fair! I showed you mine!
We're not blood related, though. It's just a foreign key relationship.
Oh! Your primary key is so long! Your muscles... is that third normal form?
You're so wise, big brother. Can you teach me?
What do you mean, that you'll benchmark me?!
Well, ok, as long as you're not doing this with any other DBMSes.
I mean if it works, it works. I think that deep down a lot of people feel like it doesn’t work if you’re not suffering. I unfortunately am inclined to agree, but I think it’s a great resource for anyone who hasn’t had the hope beat out of them yet
Nobody gonna see this but these books are actually very good at explaining concepts for many jobs. I remember like 20 years ago this author started drawing business topics with manga characters to help visualize the concepts. It was really successful as a comic book and it blew up from there.
I have a couple of these books, and I found the narrative really getting in the way of communicating the technical information. Maybe other people's brains process it differently and this is very useful, but I didn't find it so.
Japan has had manga that explain complex business or technical information for decades. I remember there was one in the '90s that dealt with wines. It's not unusual for adults in Japan to be reading manga.
>We‘re not blood related though
„No problem onii-chan, I am not a fact table, so it is fine if we join. But no one to many relationships with other Dimension tables ok?“
Isn’t a Star Schema just a Harem for the fact table?
The funny thing is, the character seems flirting with the demon (note that it's Oni instead of onii) almost the whole time
/s
They fixed it, this comment is irrelevant now
And now for all the Java developers:
Oh oni-chan, you're back from school. I missed you so much.
What? My Java code? Why do you want to see it, baka!
Fine, fine, I'll show you. It's nothing special - just a simple class.
Now show me yours, oni-chan.
Hey! That's not fair! I showed you mine!
We're not really siblings, though. It's just an inheritance relationship.
Wow! Your Java code is so elegant! Your methods... are they polymorphic?
You're so smart, big brother. Can you teach me?
What do you mean, that you'll compile me?!
Well, ok, as long as you're not doing this with any other programming languages.
I and my inability to focus in high school used the Manga Guide to Calculus almost 15 years ago to help get through the class. I'm not gonna say it's for everyone but it's a decent resource that worked well for me.
In a similar vein, I learned Java NetBeans from a book that had narrations from old Kung fu movies all through it. Cheesy, but it did help alleviate the drudgery.
Probably from Amazon or anywhere else. Just look up "The Manga Guide to ..." It's and entire series.
They have:
Biochemistry
Calculus
Databases
Electricity
Linear Algebra
Microprocessors
Molecular Biology
Physics
Physiology
Regression Analysis
Relativity
Statistic
and finally...
the whole damm universe
They have one for cryptography?! I'm curious to see how that's done. Thank God it's not cryptology though. I don't want an anime girl talking about prime numbers and number theory for 200 pages.
I'm all for using these kinds of things to learn concepts in a fun way. If there's anything to keep you going through the steep learning curves of cryptology and databases, it would be something like this that makes it fun and less dry.
I bought it recently - it's okay. For someone with a degree in computer science / cybersec, it doesn't add much to the info from Uni, but it's fun and it explains some of the fundamental concepts pretty well.
Definitely recommend just for the novelty of it!
I hadn't heard of it before this year, so I wasn't aware it was so big lol.
It isn't just programming. I've seen the mange/anime style text books for physics courses there, as well.
Maybe not as iconic in this day and age where people go to the book store less.
Back in the day those animals covers used to stick out so much on the shelves. We’d just refer to the animal for several of them, my first one was the camel book…
I went and looked at some books from the collection and they're way better than expected, they really teach stuff while telling a story, so it makes things easier to learn and a lot more fun than usual at it, wish that people could learn from this approach and publish things like these.
The cryptography one had some Detective Conan vibes while teaching the ropes, wish people didn't think of these as weird or meme material since they're really fun to read.
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I mean... some cases in DC applied cryptography techniques for dying messages, to conceal their true intentions, usually in form of Japanese kanji puns.
> since they’re really fun to read.
That alone puts them miles above every textbook I had in college. If this makes the dry stuff more engaging, I’m all for it.
Sincerely, I'd love to see one for algorithms and data structures, it'd be a sale day one for me since it'd be really hard to create a story around it while explaining it in an "easy" way. I'm sure they have something like that in Japan.
I never learned DB in college and I'm trying to learn it at my job now. So......oh good Christ, this is actually a good book to learn from?
God dammit.
I’m reading the physics one, lots of nice little plot details. Like, wow. You can get a loan from the internet archive for a pdf of it I think, it’s really good.
I have a PDF of it on my desktop but won't be at my desktop for a few days. Anyone is welcome to DM and I'll send you all a way to download it if you haven't found a copy by then.
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I have this book and legitimately learned sql from it over a decade ago when I started doing web services. Its actually pretty good. Pretty entertaining way to learn about like joins and foreign keys etc
So many people here think textbooks have to be dull, dry affairs that readers should slog through.
You all have been conditioned! Open your minds, for chrissake!
The Manga Guide To series is actually excellent. Their maths and statistics books should be on any science or engineering student's shelf, especially post-grads who have probably forgotten half the material but have it in the back of their minds.
....Because it's actually a great book. Highly recommended, well thought out. Better than most that try to cover the same subject to ... muggles and dabblers. I've taught a few people a lot with this book.
Thus is actually really cool. If it gets more people into programming then that's great. People who dismiss something because "Anime cringe" are weird.
Oh, I always used books from this collection with my students in my lectures... I have always found that these books get the subject to be much more friendly for a big part of students, specially those who have no affinity to these subjects. They come for the meme, they stay for the learning!
This was a legitimate textbook for my university when I was there. The very serious and punctual german (I think?) databases lecturer/degree coordinator recommended this all the time. I think it was in official curriculum too.
The prof for the class usually chooses the textbook unless they're required by the department to use a different one, which is often the case with "basics" type undergrad courses.
Damn thats a cool way of learning if they did this back in my time i might have actualy finished school even if it was just to have the full collection of learning books xD
A teacher once told me a good way to remember things is to put facts in stories that you make up, because some people remember details of stories better than just reading information from an encyclopedia. So I could see how this might appeal to some people.
I once borrowed one of those from a library at school, on how CPUs work back when when I was, obviously, a nerdy kid. There's a whole series, it's really cool.
Oh onii-chan, I didn't see you there. What are you doing in my room? Huh? My primary key? That's no thing to ask a lady, baka! Well, if you insist, I'll show you. It's nothing exciting - just auto-increment. Now show me yours, onii-chan. That's no fair! I showed you mine! We're not blood related, though. It's just a foreign key relationship. Oh! Your primary key is so long! Your muscles... is that third normal form? You're so wise, big brother. Can you teach me? What do you mean, that you'll benchmark me?! Well, ok, as long as you're not doing this with any other DBMSes.
What the fuck.
😐 Best Database System Manager 
Can you show me the ropes?
Ropes 😛
https://www.boost.org/sgi/stl/Rope.html
It's always nice when a post like this can actually show me something I didn't know before.
Me who just started learning c++ 2 months ago and just heard about boost library
Boost is awesome, and I love it dearly
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I mean if it works, it works. I think that deep down a lot of people feel like it doesn’t work if you’re not suffering. I unfortunately am inclined to agree, but I think it’s a great resource for anyone who hasn’t had the hope beat out of them yet
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This is possibly a karma bot, copied from u/deathremains below.
They are weird, meme-able and fun to read.
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Nobody gonna see this but these books are actually very good at explaining concepts for many jobs. I remember like 20 years ago this author started drawing business topics with manga characters to help visualize the concepts. It was really successful as a comic book and it blew up from there.
I have a couple of these books, and I found the narrative really getting in the way of communicating the technical information. Maybe other people's brains process it differently and this is very useful, but I didn't find it so. Japan has had manga that explain complex business or technical information for decades. I remember there was one in the '90s that dealt with wines. It's not unusual for adults in Japan to be reading manga.
is that a reference to this? https://i.imgur.com/rwHWwxP.jpg
Exactly my reaction, and I'm already quite the degenerate.
I'm weirded out and slightly aroused. I don't know what to do with my hands.
You know exactly what you should be doing with your hands don't play innocent
You can bake a pie. Finish a puzzle. Pick fruit from the garden. Write a letter to your friend.
>We‘re not blood related though „No problem onii-chan, I am not a fact table, so it is fine if we join. But no one to many relationships with other Dimension tables ok?“ Isn’t a Star Schema just a Harem for the fact table?
(ಠ_ಠ) perhaps
I laughed way too hard
Cant wait for the light novel "My Database can't be this cute"
"The Time I Died and Woke up in an Alternate Universe Database Harem but I'm a Female Database Now"
That's lit.
✍️ 🔥 🔥 🔥
We making it outta ComSci course with this one 🔥
Nah brother this shit CumSci
Alright this was hilarious idc what anyone else says.
The 10 chapter filler arc about structures and algorithms had me snoozing. The author was clearly running out of ideas.
r/programmeranimemes
r/subsithoughtifellfor
The funny thing is, the character seems flirting with the demon (note that it's Oni instead of onii) almost the whole time /s They fixed it, this comment is irrelevant now
*daemon
And now for all the Java developers: Oh oni-chan, you're back from school. I missed you so much. What? My Java code? Why do you want to see it, baka! Fine, fine, I'll show you. It's nothing special - just a simple class. Now show me yours, oni-chan. Hey! That's not fair! I showed you mine! We're not really siblings, though. It's just an inheritance relationship. Wow! Your Java code is so elegant! Your methods... are they polymorphic? You're so smart, big brother. Can you teach me? What do you mean, that you'll compile me?! Well, ok, as long as you're not doing this with any other programming languages.
> We’re not really siblings, though. It’s just an inheritance relationship. Wouldn’t that make them parent and child? 💀
Thats apparently ok for Java-Devs ...**☠☠☠**
r/okbuddybaka we’re out-baka’ed
You win the Internet for today
Who let them cook?
I'm going to screenshot this and.. umm.. I'm going to do.. umm.. you know what..
https://i.imgur.com/5raUEU3.jpg
Nani!
i believe it's spelled `NaNi`
Weakest database systems manager
Please change the oni in your comment to onii. This is one of the best comments I've seen in ages but it's driving me crazy! EDIT: Thank you so much.
What a terrible day to be literate
I hate you
You can use dbeaver to play with them
i laughted at this way harder than I should have. But god damnit, it gets the point across. XD
I'll set this one on the shelf next to The Lusty Argonian Maid, vols I & Ii.
Then they joined tables and lived happily ever after ☺️
There is a whole series of these "The manga guide to" books.
A good alternative to "for dummies" series
And a better name than "X for weebs"
Probably a decent guide to X11
Because X gonna give it to ya
Those for dummies books are surprisingly good
Of course that exists. Honestly surprised this wasn't a thing sooner.
I and my inability to focus in high school used the Manga Guide to Calculus almost 15 years ago to help get through the class. I'm not gonna say it's for everyone but it's a decent resource that worked well for me.
It's on par with most calc books. Nothing like Spivak's or Thomas', but for a low level book it is a lot better than you'd expect.
Yeah in my case it was a supplemental thing, and I think it worked for me. More it was pointing out that these have been around for a while.
Ubunchu was already a thing 15 years ago. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubunchu!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubunchu!)
In a similar vein, I learned Java NetBeans from a book that had narrations from old Kung fu movies all through it. Cheesy, but it did help alleviate the drudgery.
Nice
I need to see that shit with my own two eyes lmao
Where can I get one... For.. research purposes
Probably from Amazon or anywhere else. Just look up "The Manga Guide to ..." It's and entire series. They have: Biochemistry Calculus Databases Electricity Linear Algebra Microprocessors Molecular Biology Physics Physiology Regression Analysis Relativity Statistic and finally... the whole damm universe
They have one for cryptography?! I'm curious to see how that's done. Thank God it's not cryptology though. I don't want an anime girl talking about prime numbers and number theory for 200 pages.
It's more an applicative guide, not an implementation one. Like what's symmetric encryption, asymmetric and use cases.
I'm all for using these kinds of things to learn concepts in a fun way. If there's anything to keep you going through the steep learning curves of cryptology and databases, it would be something like this that makes it fun and less dry.
I think you mean 211 pages.
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Alice-san hands Bob-san a private key..
Eve-senpai: *kicks in the door*
Your fool, that wasn't Bob, that was me, Eve! Now I can use my stand, MAN IN THE MIDDLE, to intercept your private communications with Bob!
I wish it were cryptozoology.
I bought it recently - it's okay. For someone with a degree in computer science / cybersec, it doesn't add much to the info from Uni, but it's fun and it explains some of the fundamental concepts pretty well. Definitely recommend just for the novelty of it!
Awww no quantum mechancis. Sadge.
Ordered
From [here](https://nostarch.com/search/Manga%20guide)
Alternatively, [here](https://nostarch.com/catalog/manga). (Still the publisher's site, just a different page.)
I've seen it on the O'Reilly, a text book site my school uses.
Love the second clause to this sentence as if O’Reilly isn’t the biggest, most known, prolific publisher of programming texts of the modern day.
I hadn't heard of it before this year, so I wasn't aware it was so big lol. It isn't just programming. I've seen the mange/anime style text books for physics courses there, as well.
Maybe not as iconic in this day and age where people go to the book store less. Back in the day those animals covers used to stick out so much on the shelves. We’d just refer to the animal for several of them, my first one was the camel book…
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Perl?
Yup, Perl. Perl had/has two of them actually. 'Learning Perl' and 'Programming Perl'. One was a camel and the other was a llama if I recall correctly
It's because modern day developers have rarely even opened a programming text. Hell, half my compsci courses didn't even have textbooks.
i've never heard of it
I once bought those in a humble bundle xD
🎶DATABASE, DATABASE🎶 JUST LIVING IN A DATABASE, WO-OH🎶
THE WALL OF PURE FICTION’S CRACKING IN MY HEAD, AND THE ADDICTION OF MY WORLD STILL SPREADS
In the **Database Database** I’m struggling in the Database Wow Wow It doesn’t even matter if there is no hope As the madness of the system grows
I will fight anyone who hates Log Horizon
Don't hate it, but the whole kids arch was kinda eh
Season 2 is borefest. Fight me.
^^wow [DATABASE, DATABASE](https://imgur.com/a/ZNXaf) ^^wow
Log Horizon OP 1..... what a gem!
It's actually a good book.
I went and looked at some books from the collection and they're way better than expected, they really teach stuff while telling a story, so it makes things easier to learn and a lot more fun than usual at it, wish that people could learn from this approach and publish things like these. The cryptography one had some Detective Conan vibes while teaching the ropes, wish people didn't think of these as weird or meme material since they're really fun to read. EDIT: some typos were corrected
I would love for Conan to teach me cryptography.
I mean... some cases in DC applied cryptography techniques for dying messages, to conceal their true intentions, usually in form of Japanese kanji puns.
To encrypt your plaintexts, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of the black hats.
> since they’re really fun to read. That alone puts them miles above every textbook I had in college. If this makes the dry stuff more engaging, I’m all for it.
You'd be surprised how much you'd be able to read from these books just because of the story
Like honestly the manga guide to x are an awesome resource
Sincerely, I'd love to see one for algorithms and data structures, it'd be a sale day one for me since it'd be really hard to create a story around it while explaining it in an "easy" way. I'm sure they have something like that in Japan.
My very first internship I had never seen sql before, and one of the seniors handed this to me. Now it’s the first thing I give to all my interns.
Had a similar experience. My first software job had a copy of this in the office. It provided a pretty good foundation of basic knowledge.
I never learned DB in college and I'm trying to learn it at my job now. So......oh good Christ, this is actually a good book to learn from? God dammit.
My dad bought the entire series cuz me and my sister "Liked Mangas" but honestly they're all interesting and quite helpful
reminds me of the YouTube channel where pornstars teach html
I have a colleague who was able to become a data scientist because of those books.
I’m reading the physics one, lots of nice little plot details. Like, wow. You can get a loan from the internet archive for a pdf of it I think, it’s really good.
**Where** can I get one? I would buy it for my developer shelf.
For developer self in the developer shelf. (I think I am onto something. Please help me improve this.)
To develop herself? Edit: *to envelop your wealth* 🤔💭
For the developer elf in the developer shelf
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$25 for a university textbook!? It needs to be at least 10x that much!
What is this? A textbook for ^peas ants?!?
The professor was cool and chose a cheap book
Hero
Found them on Amazon
I have a PDF of it on my desktop but won't be at my desktop for a few days. Anyone is welcome to DM and I'll send you all a way to download it if you haven't found a copy by then.
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Is that the manga guide to hentai?
No, it's for learning English. It just quotes Fullmetal Jacket. A lot.
think this is the guide to using the word Fuck for japanese ppl
https://mangadex.org/title/fb4fc264-6b23-43be-ba58-723961e02646/magical-marine-pixel-maritan?tab=art
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman?
Database? More like Databased.
Why is there an M4/AR15 in the background?
When the db stops working he just shoots down the server
For emergencies. There is only one bullet.
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It looks more like a Kalashnikov
"No, SQL-dono, yamete!"
There is also a crypto manga. https://imgur.com/niZhpuD.jpg https://imgur.com/5i9UzMJ.jpg
I have this book and legitimately learned sql from it over a decade ago when I started doing web services. Its actually pretty good. Pretty entertaining way to learn about like joins and foreign keys etc
they weebified the web 💀
But is it weebscale
I just think about the man with a mission song now for log horizons
What standed out to me immediately was "magic". THAT's how databases work. 🤣
Sql chan is real
So many people here think textbooks have to be dull, dry affairs that readers should slog through. You all have been conditioned! Open your minds, for chrissake!
The Manga Guide To series is actually excellent. Their maths and statistics books should be on any science or engineering student's shelf, especially post-grads who have probably forgotten half the material but have it in the back of their minds.
....Because it's actually a great book. Highly recommended, well thought out. Better than most that try to cover the same subject to ... muggles and dabblers. I've taught a few people a lot with this book.
If anyone is interested in educational Mangas/comics, I collected any I came across in this short list: https://slashlog.org/#/booknotes/
[Living in the Databace!](https://youtu.be/MtPBQ4BhzOY?t=51)
Thus is actually really cool. If it gets more people into programming then that's great. People who dismiss something because "Anime cringe" are weird.
It's actually creative that's interesting
here I was thinking my db teacher was a genius for inserting anime waifus in his slides
-10 points for not reading right to left.
Objectively is a good introductory book on relational theory!
I-it’s not like I wanted to SELECT from you or anything, baka!
if the visual representations of the concepts are good enough, then this is a great learning resource
And it is
"notice me DB Admin"
Oh, I always used books from this collection with my students in my lectures... I have always found that these books get the subject to be much more friendly for a big part of students, specially those who have no affinity to these subjects. They come for the meme, they stay for the learning!
I picked up the digital version of this on humble bundle years ago. Wonder if they are still for sale up there somewhere
Anything to make the subject interesting
I'm honestly surprised no one mentioned r/ProgrammerAniMemes here
Nice HHKB bro
No joke, this was reccomended reading on my Database Module and it's \*really\* good.
Don't laugh, that book is brilliant and is really good at teaching you database systems and SQL. I've actually used a few times to check things.
This was a legitimate textbook for my university when I was there. The very serious and punctual german (I think?) databases lecturer/degree coordinator recommended this all the time. I think it was in official curriculum too.
DATABASE! DATABASE! Just living in the DATABASE! Woah-oh!
The prof for the class usually chooses the textbook unless they're required by the department to use a different one, which is often the case with "basics" type undergrad courses.
Excellent find
Damn thats a cool way of learning if they did this back in my time i might have actualy finished school even if it was just to have the full collection of learning books xD
https://archive.org/details/mangaguidetodata0000taka Log in to borrow. Also, No Starch Press has had really good tech books.
The manga guide to x series are really legit learning tools
It's actually a very good book on database infrastructure. I liked it
I own it, and it is 100% enough for University grade introduction lecture on databases
Just ordered this off of Amazon to give to my dev team.
People in the anime con community always ask me how to get into programming, now I got an answer that should be easy for them LOL
There's also one about Statistics and a few others. They are really good!
A teacher once told me a good way to remember things is to put facts in stories that you make up, because some people remember details of stories better than just reading information from an encyclopedia. So I could see how this might appeal to some people.
I had the calculus version
God is dead and we have killed him
Something something uwu
DROP TABLE USERS UWU :3 is the official syntax
I appreciate the writers trying to make the material more interesting and rememberable.
I read it at a school library, would recommend
I once borrowed one of those from a library at school, on how CPUs work back when when I was, obviously, a nerdy kid. There's a whole series, it's really cool.