Re: Computer science textbooks
- From: David Tseng <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 14:41:37 -0700
Right, I'm definitely after the theoretical side of things more so
than the canned set of teach yourself x language type of books.
On 5/21/11, Katherine Moss <Katherine.Moss@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It also depends upon what you're doing though too. I have tons of resources
> on the C# programming language, but most of the visuals are just to
> demonstrate Visual Studio.
>
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>
> Yeah...I love the e-text route (amazing what 24x7 offers as they have books
> from quite a few publishers like MIT Press, Rocks, Microsoft Press, etc.).
> Bookshare's one that also has some offerings.
>
> However, with all that said, the diagram issue is still what I'm finding
> lacking without either going the human paid reader/translater strategy or
> getting something from RFB&D.
>
> When you're talking about highly technical algorithms or processes, the
> visual aid's are worth trying to understand rather than piecing things
> together from the main textual narrative of the text. Also, if you start
> getting into any sophisticated mathematical notation, you lose all of that
> in translation.
>
> I guess I could run everything through infty reader, but hoped that there
> would be some other creative ways people have tackled this issue.
>
> On 5/21/11, Ken Perry <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Another one that I learned all my linux stuff from back in the 90's is
>> still around. It is books written for computer programmers by
>> computer programmers.
>>
>> http://www.wrox.com
>>
>> There is a lot of other places but that is the one off the top of my head.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Florian
>> Beijers
>> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 9:56 AM
>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: Computer science textbooks
>>
>> Well,
>>
>> THere is
>> www.bookshare.org
>> which has books on a variety of subjects. There's some computer
>> science books but not many, sadly.
>> Usually when I need a book i try to hunt it down somewhere on the web.
>> I know i should be crediting the author and apreciating his work and
>> all that but especially here in Holland it's a royal pain to get
>> digitized English books or even dutch ones on that subject, apart from
>> audio which in my opinion just isn't cutting it for this kind of material.
>> There is IRC channels devoted to sharing these texts as well.
>> If you want to go the more legal and conventional route, you could try
>> obtaining a scanning package that does the job well for books. For
>> example the iRead Now package by handyTech comes with a camera that
>> scans a page and does OCr in aproximately five seconds. Now doing this
>> for 700 pages is a bit outrageous still but you can do it in chunks.
>>
>> I guess thats the only ways I can think of so far.
>>
>> Florian
>> On May 21, 2011, at 3:07 PM, David Tseng wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> Curious to know what people do for obtaining accessible texts
>>> especially *after* finishing a degree. Out of personal interest, I'd
>>> like to get a few key books on my bookshelf as reference or just to
>>> deepen my own knowledge of a specific area. Without access to a
>>> school's lab/resources, I've kind of turned to sources like 24x7,
>>> Safari, and other technical e-book sites, but have found them very
>>> lacking wrt selection, and when they do have a book, varying levels
>>> of access to diagrams. RFB&D's/Learning Alley's also quite lacking
>>> and listening to CS books can be somewhat mind numbing.
>>>
>>> Short of calling up every university out there or employing my own
>>> diagram to text human translater, what have people done here? I know
>>> some of us are in industry, so am curious to know.
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