Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-15 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:27:57AM -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Huh? What it should or shouldn't do isn't the question, here. The book > (actually, the series, since it comprises 3 volumes) does in fact use an > idiosyncratic pseudocode presentation of the algorithms, a language which I > think

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-14 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:32 PM 11/14/02 +0200, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:51:55AM -0500, dashielljt wrote: > advanced reference book. All I have to say about Knuth is that it would > have been nice if he had put the necessary fortran or source in that large > book to build the tools for

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-14 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:51:55AM -0500, dashielljt wrote: > advanced reference book. All I have to say about Knuth is that it would > have been nice if he had put the necessary fortran or source in that large > book to build the tools for his unique programming language. I didn't It's an algor

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-14 Thread dashielljt
Well the K&R stuff in The C programming language is intermediate and advanced reference book. All I have to say about Knuth is that it would have been nice if he had put the necessary fortran or source in that large book to build the tools for his unique programming language. I didn't find that i

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-13 Thread [ Jason ]
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 17:01, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:24:07AM -0500, [ Jason ] wrote: > > 9) The C Programming Lang (ANSI Standard) (the white book, aka: the > >bible to some, the k&R book) > > I guess it is the K&R book. The bible is the Art of Computer Progr

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-13 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:24:07AM -0500, [ Jason ] wrote: > 9) The C Programming Lang (ANSI Standard) (the white book, aka: the >bible to some, the k&R book) I guess it is the K&R book. The bible is the Art of Computer Programming (D. Knuth), which I think noone mentioned and, IMHO, shouldn't

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-13 Thread Joshua Lee
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:45:03PM -0500, Paul Kraus wrote: > What books would you recommend? > > If it seems broad it is supposed to be :) I want recommendation on > newbie, intermediate, advanced, scripting, programming, and security :) O'Reilly's "UNIX Power Tools" is a neat book for finding t

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-13 Thread Joshua Lee
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:17:39PM -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Essential System Administration from those days (actually, I replaced my > original copy with the second edition), and though I never refer to it any > more, in the early days, struggling with early versions of Slackware, it > was

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-13 Thread dashielljt
I've found a book called The Spirit Of C very useful for beginning programming in C. I can't remember the rest of the information on it since it was a long time ago I used it. This isn't strictly a book, but worth its weight in gold and this isn't just my opinion either, it's shared by other prog

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-12 Thread [ Jason ]
Initially I sent this to Mr. Kraus, thinking it was going to the list; but instead wound up in his inbox. Sorry about that :) I don't post much. Here are my picks: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:45, Paul Kraus wrote: > What books would you recommend? 1) Practical Unix Programming : A Guide to Concu

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-12 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:17:39PM -0800, Ray Olszewski wrote: > at some of the book-level materials available from the Linux Documentation > Project (the URL keeps changing, so google the phrase). Every > general answer. I find the O'Reilly Internet Core Protocols book almost Yes. The LDP was

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-12 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:45 PM 11/12/02 -0500, Paul Kraus wrote: What books would you recommend? Alice in Wonderland, A Farewell to Arms, The Great Gatsby, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Goodnight Moon ... oh wait! You want computer books. See below. If it seems broad it is supposed to be :) I want

Re: Book Recommendations

2002-11-12 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 02:45:03PM -0500, Paul Kraus wrote: > If it seems broad it is supposed to be :) I want recommendation on > newbie, Get an introduction to Unix. Try to find an old one and avoid Linux in 24h, etc. > intermediate, advanced, Modern Operating Systems (Tannenbaum). > scripti

Book Recommendations

2002-11-12 Thread Paul Kraus
What books would you recommend? If it seems broad it is supposed to be :) I want recommendation on newbie, intermediate, advanced, scripting, programming, and security :) Thanks! Paul Kraus Network Administrator PEL Supply Company 216.267.5775 Voice 216-267-6176 Fax www.pelsupply.com - To unsub