| 1 |
Steev Klimaszewski <steev@g.o> posted 451E6F01.8090406@g.o, |
| 2 |
excerpted below, on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:20:01 -0500: |
| 3 |
|
| 4 |
> I am sorry but "Programming for |
| 5 |
> Dummies" and "Teach yourself C++ in 10 minutes" (just to steal your |
| 6 |
> examples) will not teach you the coding skills that you actually need for |
| 7 |
> the opensource world - as they typically are written for.... Windows... |
| 8 |
|
| 9 |
FWIW... that's one reason nearly all the books I buy now are O'Reilly. |
| 10 |
While where appropriate they include a chapter or two on the closed |
| 11 |
platforms side, they include FLOSS platforms as well and the book as a |
| 12 |
whole tends to be platform neutral, discussing perl or python or C or C++ |
| 13 |
or whatever it might be, with notes one way or the other as appropriate. |
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
-- |
| 16 |
Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
| 17 |
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
| 18 |
and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
| 19 |
|
| 20 |
-- |
| 21 |
gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list |
Archives