Linux Programming Unleashed reason: mostly out of date, information available on line.
Practical Common Lisp reason: difficult language to grasp from a C background, not found anything I'd want to program in lisp or why i'd want to use it. Effective C++ (third edition) reason: too preachy, boring as hell, my knowledge of C++ is insufficient to really understand what is being said. found opinions of C++ haters online. Algorithms in C reason: too busy writing algorithms to spare time to read about unrelated algorithms. don't quite understand all the technical language used (i'm 99% self taught). The C Programming Language (second edition) reason: too busy writing C to spare time to read a book which explains what I know already, no motivation to seek what it says about what I don't know. Calculus Made Easy reason: too difficult and I decided that writing my own audio DSP filters from scratch was not going to achieve anything. Imagining Numbers: reason: even if i did manage to increase my maths skills a thousand fold, writing my own audio DSP filters from scratch was not going to achieve anything. Structured Programming Design reason: only bought it because it was required reading for the computer studies course i took circa 1993-1995. The only programming books I've read from cover to cover: Teach Yourself C in 21 days reason: back then it was the most i'd ever spent on a book, i did not have internet access and I knew nothing about C and I wanted to port my audio generating programs from quick basic. Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days reason: back then it was the most i'd ever spent on a book, i did not have internet access and I knew nothing about C++, and I believed using C++ was the only way to make my C audio generating program into a modular audio generating program. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
