2-cent Tip - Poor Man's Computer Books

Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:10:13 -0500

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Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:43:43 +0000 (GMT)
From: Paul Sands <paul.sands123@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: 2-cent Tip - Poor Man's Computer Books
To: editor@linuxgazette.net

If, like me, you can't really afford expensive computer books, find a book in your bookshop with good examples, download the example code and work through the examples. Use a reference such as the W3C CSS technical recommendation. My favourite is Sitepoint's CSS anthology

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Raj Shekhar [rajlist2 at rajshekhar.net]

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:58:17 -0700

In infinite wisdom Ben Okopnik said the following On 6/4/09 6:10 AM:

> ----- Forwarded message from Paul Sands <paul.sands123@yahoo.co.uk> -----
>
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:43:43 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Paul Sands <paul.sands123@yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: 2-cent Tip - Poor Man's Computer Books
> To: editor@linuxgazette.net
>
> If, like me, you can't really afford expensive computer books, find a book in
> your bookshop with good examples, download the example code and work through
> the examples. Use a reference such as the W3C CSS technical recommendation. My
> favourite is Sitepoint's CSS anthology

Libraries are another good option. When I moved to US, I was a bit overhelmed by the steep book prices here. However, around 2 months back, I found out about the public library and I became a big fan (I even say that on my Facebook page, so it must be true :-) ). My library has a great internet page, allowing me to search books and put them on hold online. I am trying to adopt this book workflow <http://sachachua.com/wp/2009/02/11/book-workflow/> for book reading now.

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Paul Sands [paul.sands123 at yahoo.co.uk]

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:31:56 +0000 (GMT)

Thanks for the tip!

I recently got two free python books through the website www.computer-books.us. I liked "Dive into Python" by Mark Pilgrim and enjoyed the examples in "Text Processing in Python" by David Mertz.

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