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Building a Web Site for DUMMIES David A. Crowder

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Building a website for dummies
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I love Indian tech books. Fancy art? Whitespace? Those are expensive waste of paper. NO, dense tech diagrams and running code. No page intentionally left blank.

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Contrast with this shit. "Why use functions?"
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Oh, you say picking on a Scratch book for kids is unfair? BUT when I was a kid we learned from Ahl's books. Your kids are weak.
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C in Depth <B&W abstract underwater scene, two fish> S.K. Srivastava Deepali Srivastava
Flow chart of else… if ladder Here each condition is checked, and when a condition is found to be true, the statements corresponding to that are executed, and the control comes out of the nested structure without checking remaining conditions. If none of the conditions is true then the last else part is executed. /*P5.6 Program to find out the grade of a student when the marks of 4 subjects are given. The method of assigning grade is as- per>= 85 grade=A per<85 and per»-70 grade=-B per<70 and per>=55 grade-C per«55 and per>=40 . grade=D per<40 grade-E Here per is percentage. */ #include<stdio.h> main( ) { float mi,m2,m3,m4,total,per; char grade; printf("Enter marks of 4 subjects : "); scanf (“%f%f%f%f” , &m1, &m2, &m3, &m4) ; total=m14+m2+m34+m4; per=total/4; if (per>=85) grade='A'; else if(per>=70) grade='B'; else if (per>=55) grade='C';

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Design of the UNIX Operating System
by Maurice J. Bach
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Hardware
Kernel
sh who a.out date wc grep ed vi ld as comp cpp nroff

WTF is comp? It's not in the index, nor any man page I know.

#unix #ed

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Maurice J. Bach - The Design of the UNIX Operating System - Pearson Education Inc., 1986. Bibliography, p454-457 - includes index.
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Chaos & Cyber Culture by Timothy Leary
With guest appearances by:
👉 William Gibson
👉 Winona Ryder
👉 William S. Burroughs
👉 David Byrne

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Ah, the four horsemen of the cyber apocalypse! … not.

I'm guessing from the pop star list, and a quick flip-thru, it's pretty commercial trash, reheated '60s shit. I never saw it in 1994, and I was the most technical boy in town, as the has-been said.

#cyber #cyberpunk #drugs

"The '90s are here, and the doctor is in…" =;-) William Gibson

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Timothy Leary's take on cyberculture in the 1990s. Features interviews with people like William Gibson, William S. Burroughs, David Byrne, and his goddaughter...
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Structured Programming
by O.-J. Dahl, E. W. Dijkstra, C. A. R. Hoare
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I've read EWD's Discipline of Programming, which I assume contains a lot of this but refined? I don't always agree with EWD but he was worth "arguing" with.

dot-font STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING

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Structured Programmingby  O.-J. Dahl,   E. W. Dijkstra,  C. A. R. Hoare    This book is the classic text in the art of computer programming. The first...
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1. Doorstop
2. Throw it in the trash
3-1001… I'm stumped?
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1001 things to do with your Commodore 64
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The best of the best computer magazine of all time:
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#programming #retrocomputing #basic

If you're gonna read anything I link to, *read these*. Type in some programs with a BASIC like
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Best of Creative Computing Volume 1 Edited by David H. Ahl Spock in teletype "image"
Best of Creative Computing Volume 2 Edited by David H. Ahl Fabulous Furry Freak Bros style cartoon truck delivering Mondrians
Best of Creative Computing Volume 3 Edited by David H. Ahl spacey control panel with woman dancer

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Oh, this is super useful. I had this book, but samizdat photocopies in a binder. Getting any non-German docs for GFA was a nightmare back then.

Also gives me a real Traveller vibe.

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#retrocomputing #atari #basic

<red, white text on black> GFA BASIC BOOK An intermediate programming tutorial for the best selling BASIC… GFA BASIC. for the Atari ST MichTron
This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone. . . Mayday, Mayday. . . we are under attack. . . main drive is gone. . . turret number one not responding. . . Mayday. . . losing cabin pressure fast. . . calling anyone. . . please help. . . This is Free Trader Beowulf. . . Mayday. . . —— Science-Fiction Adventure in the Far Future Game Designers’ Workshop

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Or for old-timey BASIC, you can still have style:
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Watson reading a paper, with Holmes in place of his eyes
Statues before and after whitespace normalization
Kaballah tree of life, but as a program flowchart. I hear the Evangelion theme song, for some reason.
Nicely commented & indented BASIC. So fucking tidy you'd forget it's still a mess of GOTOs

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The Little Book Of BASIC Style by John Nevison
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Just as old:
Smalltalk-80: Bits of History
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#retrocomputing #smalltalk

Slightly less shitty scan of the cover below.

The cover is really just awful. Like, I think less of Smalltalk (which I have professionally programmed in) because of this cover. The more I look the worse it gets.

GFA, made basically solo by Frank, went with all black & text, and it still looks awesome. This, made by a $1B+ corporation, tried to do graphics but couldn't hire a skilled chimp.

Smalltalk-80 Bits of history, words of advice bad tree, balloon, minaret, construction workers view outside window, with fallen wine bottles, little person with magnifying glass. Glenn Krasner
SmalltQlk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice provides insights into the impiementotion of the Smaiitaik-80 system — a personoi, inte¬ grated, interactive programming environment. It will be of value to Smalltalk-80 system implementors, as well as to system program¬ mers in general. This book is organized into four sections. The first section contains papers discussing the history of the Smalltalk-80 system, and in par¬ ticular the development of the Smailtalk-80 Virtual Machine. In the second section the authors discuss their implementation experi¬ ences The third section provides measurements of key parts of the implementations The papers in the fourth section describe the future paths that Smalltalk-80 implementors may take. The authors of these papers are affiliated with five different corpo¬ rations and two universities Glenn Krasner, the editor, is a member of the Software Concepts Group at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). This book of implementation considerations is the second in a series of four books on the Smalltalk-80 programming environment Other books in the Addison-Wesley Smalltalk-80 Series: Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation (11371-6) Smalltalk-80: The Interactive Programming Environment (11372-4) Smalltalk-80: Creating a User Interface and Graphical Applications

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And Richard Bartle's Designing Virtual Worlds!
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Fantastic textbook on MUDs, early VR, social management of MMOs.
#mud #lambdamoo #mmo #vr

grid of Change (who gets to build) vs type of object, Shades to MOOs.

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Designing Virtual Worlds is a book about the practice of virtual world development by Richard Bartle. It has been noted as an authoritative source regarding...
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#VR #mud #mmo #LambdaMOO

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Programming Tricks & Skills
Professional tips and hints for better program writing
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#retrocomputing #basic
<colorful robots move papers around a colorful computer & wall cubbies>

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programming tricks and skills
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Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java was a really good book… in the web site and 1st ed. It became a giant bloated corpo enterprise shit thing by even 2nd ed, later ones were split up into two+ fat volumes and had CDROMs and ruined everything good in it.

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#java #programming

Preface Like any human language^ java provides a way to express concepts. If successful; this medium of expression will be significantly easier and more flexible than the alternatives as problems grow larger and more complex. You can't look at Java as just a collection of features; some of ftie feafures make no sense in isolation. You can use fhe sum of fhe parfs only if you are fhinking abouf design, nof simply coding. And fo understand Java in this way, you must understand the problems with Java and with programming in general. This book discusses programming problems, why they are problems, and the approach Java has taken to solve such problems. Thus, the set of feafures I explain in each chapfer will he based on fhe way I see a particular type of problem being solved wifh fhe language. In fhis way I hope to move you, a little at a time, to the point where the Java mindset becomes your native tongue. Throughout, I'll be taking the attitude that you want to build a model in your head that allows you to develop a deep understanding of fhe language; if you encounfer a puzzle you'll be able fo feed if to your model and deduce the answer.

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Ugh now a glut of "funny" Mac books. All "how to set your wallpaper", "run this RADICAL WOW CRAZY init mod!", buncha shit. No programming. I hated then that Mac didn't ship with any dev tools. Apple got better about that, with Hypercard, then much worse, but it's still a giant cliff face learning curve from the few scripting interpreters still installed, to fucking Xcode fuck Swift.

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Voodoo Mac Somewhat offensive picture of a "voodoo woman" with a boring computer that might be a Quadra or some shit.
Totally Rad Mac Programs On Disk: More than 20 Hip Shareware and Freeware Programs Lets You Jazz Up and Personalize Your Mac <hideous man-computer in shitty green/red/purple shorts>
This Mac is MINE Man with hearts, about to fuck his computer wife.

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VooDoo Mac 1994 7.5
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I was gonna skip all the old Mac books, but: Berkeley Breathed illustrated this.

Also like the last one, this guy gonna fuck his computer, and dog wants not to be there.

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The Macintosh Companion grinning hillbilly in overalls & bow tie, cuddling his Mac on a love seat. Dog is at far end, skeeved the fuck out.

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The Macintosh Companion 1991
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Apple ][ Redbook
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Beagle Bros Big Tip Book
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In case you need to get elbow-deep in the guts of Apple ][ programming.

Apple ][ Reference Manual January 1978 RED like a Rothko painting
Bert Kersey & Bill Sanders Beagle Bros

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The cover here is great, but giving false advertising. No Apple ][ game looked that good, were not in cabinets (that's Atari.), and pretty women in flimsy dresses were not going to be enthralled by your space videogame.

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Also storybooks with type-ins that don't do much.
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#retrocomputing #appleii #basic

sweet painting of a woman playing QUESTAR cabinet with amazing 3D graphics and a rocket that flies out. Next to it is Pac-Man.
6502 ASM code, then a dithered line drawing of spikes that might be a planet, plane without wings, and aliens? SCORE 000
Science Fiction Computer Storybook
Mystery and Adventure Computer Storybook

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You should understand, the stories about Atari's sex & drugs culture were, if anything, understated. And that carried over to the users.

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giant skull/mask shattering, face projected onto the body of a person shattering into a robot skeleton, wading into an ocean, with sun/psychic rays emerging from their head.
child's disembodied head, hand taps a keyboard, crayons, pegasus wings & partridge meld out of their hair, waterway from a hole into space unleashes a dolphin. Against a green hills & blue sky background like that fucking Windows screen.
BDSM outfit warriors raise FORTH cenotaph above a keyboard landscape, deep in space.
weirdoes code a duck on a screen.

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Or other unfortunate covers, maybe don't put "Surfin" coming out of a guy's butt.

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Amiga Karl Jeade Butt Surfin

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Tales of the Marvelous Machine
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#retrocomputing #scienceFiction

Looks like most of the Creative Computing SF stories. Tended towards slightly existential horror.

I love that it has an index by length in words.

robot hand reaches out to a keyboard. Why does a robot need a keyboard instead of a serial port‽

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I'm fine with computers coming to life through networking, having emotions, or doing a Demon Seed to impregnate Humans. But I will never believe for one fucking second that someone wrote a program for a new computer, that ran the first time. Why not have a goddamned Jinn pop out and offer wishes?
#scienceFiction
simulator, and stored for a few weeks until the Distributed Analysis Multiple Operating System, DAMOS, was completed. In the meantime, he went on vacation and was killed by an avalanche while skiing. That was something that nobody had counted on, because it was soon discovered that he had kept no notes on paper. Everything was in his head, and he had not had the time to divulge his knowledge to others, as he had planned upon his return. And so here I was. Thrust into a massive analysis project that included all of the programmers who originally worked on the project, plus many called in for added help. When the machine was first turned on in late February, his program was loaded in. Incredibly, it worked. The first thing it did after the load was to say there was a piece of dust on the primary prism in holographic memory number 17. The technicians opened the unit and corrected the problem. A few seconds later, DAMOS reported that it had checked all components of the system and had found everything in working order. That had been a little over a month ago. Nothing had gone wrong since. Even the small nuclear thermoelectric plant in the basement was operating flawlessly.
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I love all these crazy covers. They really tickle the ol' imagination

Also reminds me of one of my favourite (and most ridiculous) sci-fi inventions, from Ghost In The Shell

Cyborg hands above a typewriter-style keyboard whose fingers split into a series of smaller fingers like a tree, supposedly to make typing more efficient?
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Almost done with the stack, found this:

Seems like a thorough book on doing web canvas games. I've made a lot of games & front-end applications like this, and it's fine up to a point. Lots of JS is kind of awful, but it's the most portable thing there is.

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#gamedev #javascript

Advanced Game Design with HTML5 and JavaScript CREATE VIDEO GAME MAGIC Rex van der Spuy <kinda crappy red warning stripes over dark hex grid>

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that beagle brothers book was like some kind of religious text to me in my early teens... i had no idea how most of it worked or what it meant but i really WANTED to
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Worth noting Sharon Zardetto Aker died recently — tidbits.com/2025/05/05/a-farew…

 A Farewell to Sharon Zardetto Aker, Doyenne of Mac Writers - TidBITS

Sharon Zardetto Aker, one of the earliest and most prolific writers in the Macintosh world, has died. Her work at MacUser and Macworld and in books like The Macintosh Bible, The Mac Almanac, and The PowerBook Companion—plus in TidBITS and Take Contro…
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These Usbourne books were so important to me as a child. I rented them from the library over and over. I still own a few of them and go back for a nostalgic browse quite regularly.
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I recently had the luxury of playing BitCraft, from the creators of SpacetimeDB.
It should be to the left of the diagonal.
I spent a lot of time waiting in that game; it is closer to an idle game.
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80s programmers whom I’ve interviewed have told me that Creative Computing was the magazine that they most anticipated reading each month.
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The best. I had a subscription for a few years in the 80s. I think I have an April edition still with all the joke ads etc.
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Nostalgia…

This was one of the first "serious” books that I read on the subject. Thanks for reminding me how old I am 🤣

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