Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:20:01 -0500:
> I am sorry but "Programming for > Dummies" and "Teach yourself C++ in 10 minutes" (just to steal your > examples) will not teach you the coding skills that you actually need for > the opensource world - as they typically are written for.... Windows... FWIW... that's one reason nearly all the books I buy now are O'Reilly. While where appropriate they include a chapter or two on the closed platforms side, they include FLOSS platforms as well and the book as a whole tends to be platform neutral, discussing perl or python or C or C++ or whatever it might be, with notes one way or the other as appropriate. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
