[fsck] Re: Truman's CS Bookshelf

[Alan Garvey]

Alexander Horn wrote:
Who is in charge of selecting books that are going to be in the 
bookshelf in the future; I suppose the school is going to reduce the 
number of books available?

Alexander Horn wrote:
 

I think it is worthwhile to read the terms of 'safari'.
<snip>
YOU MAY
[...]
download and store sections of a book's contents onto your hard drive 
or other storage device for your use only for as long as that book 
remains available under your current subscription or the subscription 
of the third-party sponsoring your account, whereafter any content 
copied from Safari must be deleted or destroyed once the title is no 
longer in your subscription or you no longer have a subscription;
[...]
</snip>

Whoever has been advocating this project: thank you.
   

Two more things about our Safari subscription:
   1.  You may notice that it isn't working right now.  That is because 
O'Reilly (or their proxies) noticed "suspicious activities" from Truman 
machines.  That probably means that someone was running a spider or 
something of that sort.  We are not allowed to do that.  I hope the 
account will be reactivated soon.

  2.  Faculty have a lot of input into choosing which books will be 
among the 50 when our regular account access starts in 3 or 4 weeks.  I 
recommended a list of about 20 books that I thought would be good, 
including a bunch of Python, Perl, HTML, CSS, Javascript related books.  
We will be able to adjust the 50 books we get on a monthly basis.  I am 
willing to serve as a point of contact if you want to express interest 
in particular books being part of our subscription.

Here is the list of books that I recommended:
0-596-00555-5    AI for Game Developers
0-596-00203-3   Apache: The Definitive Guide 3rd edition
0-596-00298-X   C++ in a Nutshell
0-596-00525-3   Cascading Stule Sheets:  The Definitive Guide 2nd edition
0-596-00035-9   Information Architecture for the WWW 2nd edition
0-596-00283-1   Java in a Nutshell  4th edition
0-596-00048-0   JavaScript:  The Definitive Guide  4th edition
0-596-00132-0   Learning Perl, 3rd edition
0-596-00281-5   Learning Python, 2nd edition
0-596-00420-6   Learning XML, 2nd edition
0-596-00241-6   Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd edition
0-596-00027-8   Programming Perl, 3rd edition
0-59592-610-2   Programming PHP
0-596-00085-5   Programming Python, 2nd edition
0-596-00188-6   Python in a Nutshell
0-596-00545-8   Security Warrior
0-596-00196-7   Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd edition
0-13-142901-9   The Art of Unix Programming
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