Culling the hard...copy
2003-10-13 23:15:57.922831+02 by
Dan Lyke
4 comments
So, speaking of books, I've decided that I need to do a big culling of my bookshelves. I'm not sure quite how far down I want to dig, but some questions:
- Should I keep my copy of Newman & Sproull? How about the other
classics that I don't have a reason to go back to, Aho, Sethi &
Ullman's Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, Clocksin
and Mellish on Prolog, Kernighan and Plauger's Software Tools,
the classics that probably most modern geeks haven't heard of? Some
of these might be useful for archivists some day, looking at the
Human Interface Guidelines for the Apple Desktop Interface could
show some interesting things about how GUIs evolve, but should
I care?
- How about books for obsolete APIs and hardware. Any reason to
care about COM any more? How about Norton's Programmer's Guide
to the IBM PC?
- And process books? From Jane M. Healy's Failure to Connect to
Steve McConnell's Writing Solid Code to The Inmates Are Running
The Asylum, many of these were lauded, some I liked, some I didn't,
will I ever have a reason to go back?
And, perhaps the most important question: On the ones I don't see a need to keep, should I throw 'em out, or does someone out there want 'em?
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comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):
#Comment Re: Culling the hard...copy made: 2003-10-14 04:01:58.465237+02 by:
Diane Reese
If there are any classic code texts in the bunch, I know a teenager or two who would probably like to peruse them before they become landfill....
#Comment Re: Culling the hard...copy made: 2003-10-14 04:47:52.714948+02 by:
dws
Speaking of classics: I was culling a large stack of papers, and found one on ray tracing by one Daniel Lyke.
#Comment Re: Culling the hard...copy made: 2003-10-14 09:19:50.084775+02 by:
ccoryell
I have enjoyed selling books on amazon. I would start there...
#Comment Re: Culling the hard...copy made: 2003-10-14 16:40:39.212595+02 by:
meuon
I still use Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC a couple of times a year.
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