If you are interested in TypeScript for the browser, you might also like --erasableSyntaxOnly option of typescript >5.8. The only tool needed for it is the typescript compiler itself, so toolchain is kept to a minimum.
Bruno Latour’s "The Pasteurization of France" is about Louis Pasteur and the creation and success of germ theory. It does explain it not by focussing on Pasteur per se, but by showing how different groups of people adapted it for different goals.
These examples (dogs,cars...) are badly used in most programming books, but they can make sense if you show them in context of a small game or whatever else actually draws you an (inter) active virtual car or animal (which made OOP click for me, using processing). Printing "meow" and "woof" in the terminal, however, only makes sense as a demonstration if you already know what it should demonstrate.
True, but even for games we already have a much better technique for doing it: runtime composition, which isn't really taught.
The argument here is not so much that "implementation inheritance doesn't work at all" but rather that it is a limiting way of modeling that causes more problems than it solves, and teaching it is a problem in itself.
Implementation inheritance should be a footnote given with a warning, rather than a main technique.
For learning about the basics of statistics, my go-to resource is "Discovering Statistics using [R/SPSS]" (Andy Field). "Improving Your Statistical Inferences" (Daniel Lakens) needs some basics, but covers a lot of intesting topics, including sequencial testing and equivalence tests (sometimes you want to know if a new thing is equivalent to the old)
