What are you Reading?

Chthulhu · Post by **Chthulhu** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 9:36 pm

"Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge

Wipperwill · Post by **Wipperwill** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:02 pm

http://www.nelsonrocks.org/disclaimer.html?Active=1

Still havent gotten the hang cleaning this up. i'll work on it.

Funny stuff.

Xnapalmxmorningx · Post by **Xnapalmxmorningx** » Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:07 pm

Some "How to program in C and C++" book and Wired magazine

WangyJohn · Post by **WangyJohn** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:52 am

Kittyboymuffin wrote:Good, innit? I like the bit where they went into the basement with the wet floors, and then the clerk invited him to admire the fornication. :3

I got it for christmas (read, I bought it, and gave it to my little brother to give to me on christmas).

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:42 pm

"And they come down here in groups, eh?"

Foolosophy · Post by **Foolosophy** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 2:55 pm

The Encyclopedia Of National Socialism
School and Eductation during the Third Reich
Literature, School and National Socialism
National Socialism and School
Education and Instruction during the Third Reich

Who guesses the topic of the paper I have to hand in on thursday?

Bonus points for finding out why I don't have much time to read other stuff right now ^^

WangyJohn · Post by **WangyJohn** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:13 am

Heh, I have a book titled "Childrens Daycare in the Soviet Union"

Aeridus · Post by **Aeridus** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:16 pm

Holly Black - Tithe (A Modern Faerie Tale)

Wilmo · Post by **Wilmo** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:27 pm

Alchemy and Alchemists

Swordsman3003 · Post by **Swordsman3003** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:01 pm

The Nine

Xnapalmxmorningx · Post by **Xnapalmxmorningx** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:01 pm

In the Graphic novels Category:
"Heavy Liquid" and "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns"

In the Other Category:
Programming in C: A complete introduction to the C programming language
This is because I had to return the other C book v.v and my programming class appears to have failed me... we're using some thing called Alice which make programing more friendly, according to their propaganda video on their website.

Putaro · Post by **Putaro** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:17 am

xnapalmxmorningx wrote:. we're using some thing called Alice which make programing more friendly, according to their propaganda video on their website.

I took a look at the website for that Alice thing (I think I found the right one - http://www.alice.org?). If you're interested in learning C you're probably well beyond the target audience since Alice is supposed to suck you in so that you want to learn things like C. It does look like you can drop modules written in C or Java into the middle of it to do things as well.

PM me if you want some tips and maybe some email tutoring. I wrote my first C code back in 1983 so I've learned a few tricks along the way

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And what am I reading....I was going back through the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove. I think I need to go buy some new books...

Xnapalmxmorningx · Post by **Xnapalmxmorningx** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:51 am

Yup that's Alice.
Apparently one of the reasons why they decided to use Alice is that the majority of the people who take the section I'm in are design majors. So it makes some sense that they would go with a program where you can see the results right away.

Thanks for the offer, I may take you up on it.

Orwell · Post by **Orwell** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:33 pm

Putaro - any recommended coding environment for C++?

Currently reading "The beginnings of Rome by TJ Cornell".

Putaro · Post by **Putaro** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:48 pm

orwell wrote:Putaro - any recommended coding environment for C++?

Hmmm...Personally I'm not a real big C++ fan. I actually do most of my work in Java these days with a bit of C and Objective C now and then. If you're on Windows, Visual C++ is pretty much it, isn't it? The Mac is basically Xcode. If you're on Linux/Unix Eclipse has a C++ environment now or you can become an Emacs power user. I usually just use vi myself but I haven't done serious Unix development in C/C++ since about 1994 when the only real environments were vi/shell and Emacs and I've always hated Emacs.

Xero · Post by **Xero** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:56 pm

putaro wrote:
orwell wrote:Putaro - any recommended coding environment for C++?
Hmmm...Personally I'm not a real big C++ fan. I actually do most of my work in Java these days with a bit of C and Objective C now and then. If you're on Windows, Visual C++ is pretty much it, isn't it? The Mac is basically Xcode. If you're on Linux/Unix Eclipse has a C++ environment now or you can become an Emacs power user. I usually just use vi myself but I haven't done serious Unix development in C/C++ since about 1994 when the only real environments were vi/shell and Emacs and I've always hated Emacs.

I fucking love vi, emacs and nano just seem... castrated to me
oh well

and yeah, (visual)C++ is pretty much standard on windows, they're trying to push it ever more than .net3 is out, and .net3.5 is now in beta

Chthulhu · Post by **Chthulhu** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:55 pm

"The Greedy Bastard Diary" by Eric Idle; last night I finished "Starmind" by Spider and Jeannie Robinson.

Prettydragoon · Post by **Prettydragoon** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:46 am

"Mighty Good Road" by Melissa Scott.

Putaro · Post by **Putaro** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:40 am

OK, since we're talking about what we're reading I had to pull something out of the library that I'm not embarrassed to admit I'm reading.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Foolosophy · Post by **Foolosophy** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:14 pm

Queer Studies - A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Anthology

just came in the mail