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What computer books do you own?
« on: December 25, 2008, 11:48:59 PM »
Some of us might have too big a collection to list- but I have some unique titles myself:
Obviously I've limited it to computer books for obvious reasons. No reason to list my two sets of Encyclopedias and Yearbooks...

"Secrets of the Visual Basic For Windows Masters"
"Microsoft Windows And MS-DOS 6.22" 
"Microsoft Windows" (GIANT manual)
"IBM PC-DOS and Microsoft Windows"
"Thinkpad 755 CD/CDV user guide"
"Mixed Language Programming"

All three Visual Basic 2.0 manuals- Language Reference, Programmers Guide, and Professional Features

Canadian Internet Handbook (this ones funny, from 1994)

"Applied Structured BASIC" 1982 college text
"A Guide to programming in Turbo Pascal"
"Computer Programming in BASIC the easy way"
"Upgrading and Fixing PCs for Dummies"
"Upgrading and Fixing PCs for Dummies 15th Edition"
"Windows 95 Power Toolkit"
"Turbo Pascal 5.5 Programmers Guide"
"Pure Visual Basic"
"Running MS-DOS" (looks like the first edition- discusses version 3.22)
"The Macintosh Bible" REALLY old...
"Fractal Creations 18th edition"
"Windows 3.1 Secrets"
"Fix your own PC"



hmm, I thought I had more books. Oh well.
I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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Re: What computer books do you own?
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2008, 02:58:17 AM »
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Re: What computer books do you own?
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2008, 03:58:59 AM »
I don't have any computer books at all.
With our family's first computer, in 1996, we got "Windows 95 for Dummies" and I think we may have received 98 for dummies with our second PC in '99, but I can't really remember.
Anyway, we now have neither of those, so the only computer related books in the house are hardware/software manuals, l;eaflets etc that came with products.

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Re: What computer books do you own?
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2008, 09:21:15 AM »
I have a couple thousand computer related E-Books.  I'll be damned if I have to start writing them all up. =]
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Re: What computer books do you own?
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2008, 10:05:20 AM »
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VB Developers Guide to the Win32 API
VB Developers Guide to COM and COM+
VB Developers Guide to ASP and IIS
VB Developers Guide to ADO
Developers Handbook VBA
From The Ground Up J++
From The Ground Up SQL
Using Visual Basic 6
Visual Basic 2005
Perl, CGI, JavaScript Complete Handbook
MKS Toolkit
Object REXX Programming Guide, Reference, OODialog Method Reference
PC-DOS 7 User's Guide, REXX User's Guide, Command Reference
MS-DOS 5 User's Guide and Reference
OS/2 Warp Command Reference

I also have some IBM mainframe manuals from my days with VM/CMS and MVS/TSO

Manuals are nice, but today it's so much easier to do research on the Net. 8)

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Re: What computer books do you own?
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2008, 11:54:36 AM »
Microsoft VBScript Step by Step, and
PHP and MySQL Web Development

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Re: What computer books do you own?
« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2008, 11:56:39 AM »
I have a couple thousand computer related E-Books.  I'll be damned if I have to start writing them all up. =]
yeah and I have 3,112 ebooks at the moment. this is about real books though.


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But- sometimes it's just good to curl up next to a warm fire and read about SQL query construction...


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Re: What computer books do you own?
« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2008, 12:46:32 PM »
I've got a mind like a steel trap!


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Re: What computer books do you own?
« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2008, 02:02:42 PM »
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Java Power Tools
Java Pocket Guide
Darkstar: The Java Game Server
Checking Java Programs
Java and XML, Third Edition
Java Generics and Collections
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 , Fifth Edition
Java I/O , Second Edition
Java Enterprise in a Nutshell , Third Edition
Beyond Java
Killer Game Programming in Java
Learning Java , Third Edition
Java in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition
Java Network Programming, Third Edition
Java Threads, Third Edition
Java Cookbook, Second Edition
Better, Faster, Lighter Java
JavaServer Faces
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Java Servlet & JSP Cookbook
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Java Enterprise Best Practices
NetBeans: The Definitive Guide
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Java 2 Black Book, Second Edition
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Database Programming with JDBC & Java , Second Edition
Java 2D Graphics
Repairing and Upgrading Your PC
Building the Perfect PC, Second Edition
PCs: The Missing Manual
PC Pest Control
PC Hacks
Big Book of Windows Hacks
Network Security Hacks, Second Edition
Hacking the Cable Modem
PSP Hacks
Car PC Hacks
Hacking the Xbox
Windows XP in a Nutshell, Second Edition
Visual Basic 6 Black Book
Designing Gestural Interfaces
C# 3.0 Pocket Reference, Second Edition
Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One
Sound Mixing Tips and Tricks
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Re: What computer books do you own?
« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2008, 05:48:40 AM »
Woah, you like Java.... ;D

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Re: What computer books do you own?
« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2008, 03:44:58 PM »
Woah, you like Java.... ;D

For my Job.... :P


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Re: What computer books do you own?
« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2008, 08:30:15 AM »
Oh yea, that makes sense then... :D

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    Re: What computer books do you own?
    « Reply #12 on: December 28, 2008, 08:45:19 AM »
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