OT: Looking for programming books

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Thu Oct 2 00:15:26 MST 2008


On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:55:00 -0700, "Micah DesJardins"
<micahdj at gmail.com> said:
> Also, www.half.com and www.amazon.com are both great places to pick up
> gently used copies of these sorts of books at a deep discount.
> 
> Micah

That's what I was thinking, Micah; also, I was on E-Bay yesterday and I
saw even deeper discounts.  The downside: you have to trust the seller
that they're telling you the honest truth about the condition of the
book!  Or that they're honest, period...

Thanks, Mike

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Ryan Rix <phrkonaleash at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just grab up some O'Rielly books on all those subjects; They are, imho, some
> > of the best resources you could possibly have. If you want a preview, most
> > libraries carry at least a few (at least some O'Rielly books are on the
> > westside, both at Glendale Foothills and Phoenix Juniper, iirc)
> >
> > ~Ryan
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 6:30 AM, <storkus at storkus.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> After being told it's probably ok, I'll put out my request.
> >>
> >> If anyone has some programming books they feel they can part with, I'd
> >> like to buy them.  I'm looking for books on C, Perl, Python, and shell
> >> scripting, and possibly more.
> >> I *REALLY* would like K&R 2 or similar, along with anything else by the
> >> old Bell boys like "The UNIX Programming Environment".
> >>
> >> Thanks, Mike
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