Please say more! Another book I've liked at my end is Paul Fishwick, Aesthetic Computing - you might like this as well. Just saw he has an article http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick/tr/00/leo.pdf that might also be of interest?
- Alan On Tue, 18 May 2010, James Morris wrote: > 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 reason: mostly out of date, information available on line.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 > > == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
