Re: Computer science textbooks
- From: David Tseng <davidct1209@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 12:34:02 -0700
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-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [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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