...making Linux just a little more fun!
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
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Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:43:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Sands <[email protected]> Subject: 2-cent Tip - Poor Man's Computer Books To: [email protected]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]
In infinite wisdom Ben Okopnik said the following On 6/4/09 6:10 AM:
> ----- Forwarded message from Paul Sands <[email protected]> ----- > > Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:43:43 +0000 (GMT) > From: Paul Sands <[email protected]> > Subject: 2-cent Tip - Poor Man's Computer Books > To: [email protected] > > 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.
Paul Sands [paul.sands123 at yahoo.co.uk]
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.