I'm working on getting into college. they want $50 if I'm not currently attending a school, but they don't have the books I need. I looked there already, was willing to just pay the $50.
On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:08 AM, Jackie McBride wrote:
Tyler, u r a student, r u not? If so, Bookshare gives free student accounts.On 11/9/09, Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:awesome, thanks. I'll check. wasn't aware prentice had accessible books.On Nov 8, 2009, at 11:24 PM, Varun Khosla wrote:You can get it from prentis hall. the book is in .chm format (The mostaccessible of formats I find, as you can quickly navigate around the content). You can also download it from pdfchm.com if you have an account. On 11/6/09, Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hello,I appriciate the title; is there an accessible copy ov this book soldsomewhere? On Nov 6, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Varun Khosla wrote:Hi Tyler,You can try operating system design and implementation by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Albert S. Woodhull. The book is (as far as I know) theonly one that discusses os concepts with code examples implemented ina real os called Minix. You can go to www.minix3.org for the sourcecode and installation iso for minix os. I don't know of any screen reader for minix yet, but as it supports many APIs and is made similar to that of unix, porting one to minix shouldn't be dificult. P.S. If you get to know additional interesting information/tools that may be helpful in this regard, do post to the list - I'm also studying this subject in the current cem. ----- Varun On 11/3/09, Tyler Littlefield <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:hello laura,I have a pretty good understanding on lists and queues and such. Mygoal now is to learn more about the inner workings; perhaps by testing a os and making changes as I learn more to speed it up and improving performance. If I can find the books, it would give me a niceintroduction and show me what I don't know so I can learn that, andteach me along the way. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield On Nov 2, 2009, at 5:13 PM, qubit wrote:Hi Ty --Perhaps you could check what textbooks are currently used at yourlocal college or university for a class on these subjects. But before tackling subjects of this magnitude you should really have a verygood understanding of data structures and objects -- what they areand how to implement them in your favorite language. I think you already have some exposure to different types of languages from the various projects you have tinkered on, and looking at the fruit basket samples. But when you get into OS and compiler construction, you really need a good grounding of experience with the basics. The only thing about this that has changed since I was in school in the 80sis that OO programming has emerged in a big way. But when you aretalkingabout actually writing a little operating system, you are talkingabout low level details and data manipulation below the level of objects. Hence the old fashioned constructs like stacks and queues and locks are important. Sorry I'm not much more help.You probably noticed on program-l the note that safari books havesuddenly become inaccessible to persons using screen readers. And they don't soundpromising about fixing it. Perhaps you should join in the protestto get a blind friendly site back. Happy hacking. --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyler Littlefield" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:42 PM Subject: looking for books... still Hello, Previously I wrote in asking about some books on OS and compiler design; I still have yet to find anything. I did a bit of searching on bookshare but didn't find anything; I would just pay the $50 for thesubscription for those. Is there any other way I could find what Ineed? Help would really be appriciated. Thanks, Tyler Littlefield __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind-- Varun __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind-- Varun __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind-- Change the world--1 deed at a time Jackie McBride www.abletec.serverheaven.net Please join me Saturday, 11/7, on my walk against breast cancer by making a donation at: http://main.acsevents.org/goto/larkspur> __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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