OK.

In school there is a QBasic compiler on the school network. The only thing is, I'm the only (staff+pupil) who knows of it.

Anywayz, in the school libary, there is about 40-50 programming books, half from the eighties and half from the post eighties. So I went to look today for a QBasic book, and believe it or believe it not, when there is a Win32 API book, and a compiler design with ADA book, there was no QBasic book. I know QBasic is an evil language, but for heaven's sake, shouldn't there be a QBasic book for beginner programmers? (I am not beginner, remember).

OK. Heres the point of this post. What's your school libary collection of programming books like?

Well, considering I'm homeschooled my library consists of:

Turbo C++ 4.5 for Windows
Using Visual Basic 6
ActiveX and VBScript
Visual Basic 6 in 24 hours
KDE 1.1
Developing Your Own 32-Bit OS
Game Programming with DirectX in 21 Days
Windows 98 Programming from the Ground Up

Our public library doesn't have a whole heap of books. Mainly it's nothing but dummies books. There are a few PHP books I get out regularly and a couple of .NET and C things, but that's about it [addsig]

Developper avec Corba en Java et C++
UML et les Design Patterns
Intro to DirectX
Intro to Python
Data Structure and Problem Solving using Java
Haskell The Craft of Functionnal Programming
Programming Perl (O'Reilly's camel book)
Mastering Algorithms with Perl
XML in a Nutshell
Delphi in a Nutshell
Java in a Nutshell
Le Meilleur de Java
Entreprise JavaBeans
Java Server Pages
Object-Oriented Programming with Eiffel
Programmer en Language C++
Deitel's How to Program C++
Programmation Linux
Elements of the theory of computation
Thomas Finney Calculus 9th Edition
VB5 Win32 API Programming
PC System programming bible
Internet Bible
Roughly 800pages of printed Erlang documents
Printed SML documentation
Printed Emacs Lisp programming intro
Printed OCaml tutorial
Cobol Programmer (for sale)
Electrical Engineering Principles and Applications (for sale)
Digital Design Principles and Practice
Computer Organization and Design (for sale)
Programmation PHP (for sale)
Signals and Circuits (for sale)
Le MacMillan Linux 3rd Edition (for sale)
TI89 Manual
Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems
Develop Under Windows 95 and NT 4.0
Compilers: Principles, practice and tools (the Dragon Book)
Luger's Artificial Intelligence
Programming Scheme Practice to Theory
Printed parts of the Vim book


this is the extent of my personnal library Do I need to say that I love books? I left few old books (including a QB45 book) at home with all of my non-computer-related books and my cartoons book.

[ This Message was edited by: Neu[Mann] on 2003-10-04 06:46 ]

[ This Message was edited by: Neu[Mann] on 2003-10-04 07:02 ]

I feel left out.

- Linux (un)clearly (not)explained, this badly written essay. It says you can't use virtual consoles with gnome!

- Compiler construction for digital computers. It's typewritten! Its a 70s book on writing a compiler in algol. [addsig]

Neumann, out of curiosity, do you find it easier to read in French or English or both equally?

I have no problem reading english but reading a dense english book (like "Computer Organization and Design") becomes exhausting a lot more quickly than any book written in french. O'Reilly books are excellent in the sense that they are usually simple and they can also be used as references.

That's the only difference I see. That's why I never read novels in english. I'd have hard times getting into it. [addsig]

I have a lot of trouble reading anything that isn't English [addsig]

Learn french - its easier than you think. If you can master anything as cryptic as asmbly, then le français is going to be like the form-editing part of vb.

Vive les pays francophone! (Long live french-speaking countries!) (Neumann - did I get that right - I dont speak french natively)

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[ This Message was edited by: eosp on 2003-10-06 04:39 ]

Yes you did. Congrats! [addsig]

I so wanted to take French this year, but it was a choice between French and Computers

Don't use those computer french courses. They're lollipopy. What is a pile of badly pronounced vocab going to do? And anyway, asking "Who speaks english here" is just about as worthless.

Take the time to learn french from school. Anyway, if you can program, french is not hard. [addsig]

I have a "Learn to Speak French" CD. Maybe I should get cracking on it [addsig]

I dug up my French books and tapes a while back, as now I am able to understand grammer, and such. French seems to be a nice language; the only thing I didn't like was how it was like as unphonic as English... But every language has its flaws, and I suppose that is one of the reasons French sounds nice. [addsig]