RE: Computer science textbooks
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 12:22:26 -0400
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
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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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