# Stickman Charles Books

> The bookshelf of Stickman Charles (Charles Tao, b. 2012) — home of every book he writes. Sister site of https://stickmancharles.com. Written in Chinese; UI bilingual (EN/ZH).

Currently on the shelf: "AI 时代的编程指南" (The AI-Era Programming Guide) — a five-volume series teaching how to read the programmer's world in the AI era, written by Charles Tao with Claude, dedicated to his father Roy. Every example comes from their own real projects. Four volumes are finished at v1.0; volume five is in writing.

## The AI-Era Programming Guide

- [Overview / 总纲](https://books.stickmancharles.com/guide/overview): Series map, volume status, and the outline of volume five.
- [Vol 01 — 看懂地图 / Reading the Map](https://books.stickmancharles.com/guide/01/) (★, 16 chapters): Requests and responses, front/back end, databases, APIs, servers, DNS. [PDF](https://books.stickmancharles.com/pdf/AI时代的编程指南-01-看懂地图-v1.0.pdf)
- [Vol 02 — 上手工具 / Hands on Tools](https://books.stickmancharles.com/guide/02/) (★★, 12 chapters): VS Code, Claude, the command line, Git and GitHub — from an empty folder to a live URL. [PDF](https://books.stickmancharles.com/pdf/AI时代的编程指南-02-上手工具-v1.0.pdf)
- [Vol 03 — 读懂语言 / Reading the Languages](https://books.stickmancharles.com/guide/03/) (★★★, 10 chapters): HTML, CSS, JS, TS, SQL, Markdown — read every file the AI writes. [PDF](https://books.stickmancharles.com/pdf/AI时代的编程指南-03-读懂语言-v1.0.pdf)
- [Vol 04 — 深入系统 / Into the Systems](https://books.stickmancharles.com/guide/04/) (★★★★, 10 chapters): Cloudflare, bare servers, database modeling, API design, logs and cost. [PDF](https://books.stickmancharles.com/pdf/AI时代的编程指南-04-深入系统-v1.0.pdf)
- Vol 05 — AI 工程心法 / AI Engineering Mindset (★★★★★): In writing. Outline in the overview volume; roadmap at https://books.stickmancharles.com/roadmap

## Other sections

- [Start / 开始](https://books.stickmancharles.com/start/origin): Why this series exists, what vibe coding is, how to use the site.
- [Reference / 速查](https://books.stickmancharles.com/reference/git): 26 quick-reference cards (tools, languages, backend, deployment, working with AI).
- [Projects / 项目](https://books.stickmancharles.com/projects/first-website): Only real projects — first website from zero, how this site was built, EchoForge anatomy.
- [Glossary / 术语表](https://books.stickmancharles.com/glossary): Auto-assembled from every volume's term appendix.
- [License / 许可](https://books.stickmancharles.com/license): Prose and site source CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; in-book code snippets MIT. Translation requests welcome by email.

## Contact

- Email: charlesisworkinghard@gmail.com
- Main site: https://stickmancharles.com