On 15 Sep 2013, at 11:46, doug livesey <[email protected]> wrote: > My last tech book was on AngularJS (front-end stuff not being a strong point > for me), and my next is on game physics (my maths is pretty weak for this > area), and in both cases, seeing code helps me a lot more than abstract > theory.
I've been reading up on Backbone.js, Node.js and Neo4j recently, and just went straight to O'Reilly because the animal covers have a decent reputation (and in my case experience), and they're generally the best of a bad lot. And the eBooks are DRM-free. Also the Graph Databases book is currently free - get it whilst you can: http://graphdatabases.com/ I'd be interested on recommendations on AngularJS BTW, as a few people have suggested it might be a better fit for the problems we're trying to solve than Backbone.js My point though is that many of the "here's some code, type it in and then do some exercises" style books are ones I generally don't tend to turn to these days: I want online tutorials and well documented source code. Oh, and I also think Sams "... in 24 hours" books in particular are also very weak in general. Everybody is different though and everybody responds best to different pedagogical styles so it's one area where YMMV very, very much from mine. ;-) > I do sometimes consider getting a big tablet for these sorts of books, but it > seems like a lot of money for a single use item. Be nice and shiny, though ... I thought I'd rarely use my iPad mini beyond the odd train journey and being able to read the odd website whilst on the sofa, but got it anyway (built-in 3G and an ssh client means it's useful for remote server triage), but I am increasingly using it all over the place. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
