|
So, about books...
any you're loving right now? I'm finishing up the book "A Stolen Life" (The story of Jaycee Dugard). and I need a rec for my next book. Thinking of giving Hunger Games a shot, but heard it's hit or miss.
Side note: got a Kindle Fire...
Started by SpiderSpray on
, 15 posts
by 12 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at thenest):
I'm reading the Millenium Trilogy....
I spent a ton on books The Hunger Games.
I liked it much more than many of the booksI am LOVING 11/22/63 by Stephen King! The Buy Now button is so easy .
Volenti: I also loved The Book Thief.
At the end.
Related shopping results:
|
|
What are some good books or resources for programming p2ptv?
Started by joshjdevl on
, 4 posts
by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
I have started sometime ago to write The World of Peer-to-Peer .
Something like "Audio a book on the subject yourself :).
I'd probably start with a few good books on audio/video protocols.
Forums.
|
|
Are there any good MVC books using the VB language?
Thx...
Started by kevinius on
, 4 posts
by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Just my two cents....
Prefer a good book with C# than a bad one aimed at the VB.NET crowd.
|
Ask your Facebook Friends
|
Any good books or academic papers on web scraping or web spiders?
Started by gpow on
, 5 posts
by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
For something spicier, although still at survey levels, a nice recent article from "Data & Knowledge Engineering" is here and it specifically addresses the issues of "focused web... .
If you're looking for a general survey, I would recommend this article .
|
|
Duplicate of Python book to buy? , or most of these questions
Can you recommend some good Python books for a beginner?
Started by Boatnoy on
, 8 posts
by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
If you are interesting in python for web programming I recommend reading the django book
http://www.diveintopython.org/ is a good....
"Dive into Python" is the best introductory book on python I have read.
Is also very good.
|
|
I'm interested in purchasing an e-book reader, mainly for reading programming related e-books.
Up until now, e-book readers seemed to have a pretty bad reputation. I wonder if this situation has changed and anyone had any good experience with any of them...
Started by Pop Catalin on
, 6 posts
by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Instead look at any of the netbook type laptop PCs avaialable for the same reason, ... .
Common netbook screen resolution of 1024 x 600 is good for comfortable readingDon't buy a dedicated e-book reader.
With dedicated e-book readers.
|
|
I'm looking to expand my knowledge of web interfaces and interactions but there are so many books out there. What would be a good few to start with?
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Not a book but http://webdesignfromscratch.com/ has The Web Design Business....
As well as his books, of course.
books/
About Face 3 is really good for general interface design and not directly targeted at the web, always amusing.
|
|
I was wondering if the current generation of e-book readers (like the Kindle, or Sony's Reader) are big/high-res enough that you can comfortably use them for large paper-size PDFs, like most programming and other technical books? I've bought a few PDF...
Started by odd parity on
, 7 posts
by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
However with good tech books I find that I read very differently to more normal "serial regular books and technical papers, hell sometimes even long web pages or html-based documentation, and this impedes the way that....
Tutorials.
|
|
Any good blogs/articles/ books on designing highly scalable systems? Good source code for studying would help a lot too.
Started by Umair Ahmed on
, 5 posts
by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Best blog I know of: http://highscalability.com/
Some good articles & case studies here
Similar.
|
|
I know this is a broad area, but...
I'm looking at Writing Secure Code, Second Edition , but I was wondering what other good books were out there on the subjects of security, hacking, and computer forensics. A quick search turns up plenty, but I'm not...
Started by Thomas Owens on
, 15 posts
by 14 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
Don't waste time looking for "white hat hacking" books - the good ones won't make that distinction, and if you really want to be good at it, what's the point in knowing what the "good guys" are doing Schneier 's books....
|
