no we don't, when I started programming in high school in my late i had a copy of the dragon book that a RE friend told me about.
ops question would be better addressed if it addressed it's audience correctly:
"Self-Taught Web-Developers: Are You Missing Your Foundation" - and again the answer would be no. Since it's essentially a form of text processing we're talking about. Entirely different audience/target/whatever.
There's also many many many algorithms books around these days. The average web developer doesn't read them, and why would he?
Long story short:
Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'".
ops question would be better addressed if it addressed it's audience correctly:
"Self-Taught Web-Developers: Are You Missing Your Foundation" - and again the answer would be no. Since it's essentially a form of text processing we're talking about. Entirely different audience/target/whatever.
There's also many many many algorithms books around these days. The average web developer doesn't read them, and why would he?
Long story short:
Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headlines