> John Levin wrote: [...] >> Not quite sure what you're looking for - particular technical texts? >> Tutorials? Something more general?
I am just looking for general reads that people rate, mainly things that relate to my college course, as listed in my original post, as well as improving my knowledge on Linux. >> Anyway, for a comprehensive intro to linux, I like RUTE: >> http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz >> >> For prose on programming, I recommend "In The Beginning Was The Command >> Line" >> http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html >> and "Open Sources" >> http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/toc.html >> Both freely available online. >> >> Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month" is essential reading, it made me think >> in a very different, social rather than technical, way about >> programming, and I enjoyed "Dreaming In Code", about the travails of >> the Chandler project. Code isn't just code! >> >> For Java, Python etc, I've no idea. >> >> Hope that helps >> >> John Thanks, I will take a look at them all. Lucy wrote: > On 21/10/2008, John Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For Java, Python etc, I've no idea. > > For Python I would recommend the book Dive into Python (also available > online at http://www.diveintopython.org) > > For Java there's Thinking In Java, part of a whole series by Bruce > Eckel, and is also well worth checking out (even if you're familiar > with the language). It's also available online at > http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/ (with the newer version, not quite > so free, at http://mindview.net/Books/TIJ4). Thank you Lucy, these look like they will help. Anyone got any other recommendations? -- Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
