On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 04:22:15PM -0500, George M. Butler wrote: | Hi all, | | I have been asking questions on this list and received lots of help. I | am new to | Linux but have some | limited experiece with Unix in the past. I have just | discovered that my employer will let me have $400 to buy books related | to my job.
Nice! | I am a member of a mathematics faculty so naturally Linux is job | related. I would | be interested | to hear from the contributors of this list what are their favorite | Linux, Unix, | Networking, Programming Language, or related books. I really like Python as a programming language. I find it to be easy, clean, and powerful and scaleable. (YMMV of course ;-)) O'Reilly publishes Learning Python and Programming Python. I am sure there are other books as well. (Well, I know that Mark Hammond has a book specific to win32 Python programming, and there is a Tkinter specific book). Personally I just used the tutorial on the web, and use the library reference when I need it. I see you have a book on TeX. Maybe a book on LaTeX would be useful for you? I have heard that Leslie Lamport's book is rather authoritative. If you are going to do text processing I would recommend "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl (O'Reilly). It is quite good, and I have found regexes to be very useful to me. -D
