Coding for Lawyers by V. David Zvenyach.
From the FAQ:
What? Lawyers and Coding?
It’s true. Lawyers can code. In fact, if you’re a lawyer, the truth is that it’s easier than you think. I am a lawyer, and a coder.1 In the course of two years, I have gone from knowing essentially nothing to being a decent coder in several languages. This book is intended to drastically shorten that time for others who, like me, decide that they want to learn to code.
You have heard about all the public access to the law projects that are putting encouraging people to determine their own legal rights by reading primary legal texts.
Now we have a lawyer who is striking back at the technical elite by teaching lawyers to code.
Turnabout if fair play I suppose. 😉
I suspect that professions, like lawyers, have learning experiences and styles that are not common to all groups. For example, the first chapter in this book starts off with regexes and uses case citations as an example for a regex. I rather doubt most introductory computer books would take that approach. But to a lawyer, comprehension is immediate and obvious. The terminology has changed but a lawyer knows instinctively how to parse such expressions.
If you are a lawyer or know any lawyers, this is a project to follow. In part simply to learn coding but also to see where one approach used domain specific examples for teaching coding.
I first saw this in a tweet by Adam Ziegler.