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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
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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.
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Suppose you have a book on a programming language and are trying to learn the language. You want to write the code that is given in the book in so you can learn by example while you read. But you hate holding the book on your lap and trying to type at...
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Once you buy a holder for a book and put it next to your monitor" and putting your arms on top of the pages....
I went does make a ton of difference...
Try a PDF edition of your books
An Amazon Kindle.
The web is the best book holder.
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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...
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:-( Hopefully in the later is that you can'....
However with good tech books I find that I read very differently to more normal "serial that paragraph or table you want to look at again, is really not a very good option.
Tutorials.
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Is there any book about modern PHP (like 5.2 + mysqli or PDO) for beginners with good exercises (for ex., good exercises are in "Learning Perl", which is one of the best books for beginners)?
P.S. (considering some answers I got on IRC): it should not...
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O'Reilly's....
Very nice book, which takes you through the process of creating 2 different projects.
A-beginner-to-program
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book through wrox' PHP6, Apache, MySQL .
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I'm writing a technical book ( plug - all money goes to charity so it's not so evil). Though I'm half done, I'm still constantly trying to figure out what makes a technical book really good. I don't aspire to be in the realms of a K&R or Peter Norvig ...
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If it's a reference style book it should be.
HTH, Good luck with your book!
I would say that humor plays a small part asleep--are especially a good idea if the book is a start-to-finish thing.
Really appeal to me.
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Possible Duplicate:
Good JavaScript Books?
Hi All, Please suggest a Good Javascript Book(including JSON).Thanks
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Good explanationsone of the most famous....
Javascript: the Good Parts by Douglas Crockford.
Ajaxian.com/archives/book-review-%E2%80%9Cjavascript-the-good-parts%E2%80%9D-by-crockford for more recommendations of this book.
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Duplicate of Python book to buy? , or most of these questions
Can you recommend some good Python books for a beginner?
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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.
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Hi all,
suppose that you have a good C understanding. Which C++ book would you recommend? Maybe the best book you can think of?
Thanks
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There is a second volume that provides ....
Btw, book is completely free which is another advantage :)
I would recommend "C++ C++.
Since you are good with C, you might want to skip some parts from volume 1.
Thinking in C++ by Bruce Eckel.
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Hey any one suggest me good book for to learn objective-c
Thanks
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We've got a list of Cocoa-related....
For Objective-C itself, have a look at the Kochan book.
I would still consider it a good learning course.
Aaron Hillegass' " Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X " is the best introductory book I know.
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Can anyone suggest a good documentation/tutorial/book about Future in Java?
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Concurrent Programming in Java(TM): Design Principles....
I think it's one of the most beautifully javadoced code in JDK .
Darn good.
Java Concurrency in Practice is a very good book, too.
By the author of java.util.concurrent package.
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