Which book\resource should i read?

[karmanya]

Books are expensive. especially the ...For Dummies series.
Just go to a decent bookstore and ask around for books on programming(i would suggest start with something easy like python or basic), networking and whatever your other categories are. Flip through the book to see if you can easily understand it. Simple as that.

 

[azaad_shri75]

Nah, nothing @ school, just finished 12th guys, am not that old

and i studied in dps, dharan.
Pathetic lab, a$$hole teachers. Never taught well, nothin more than logo, gwbasic, qbasic. as it was never evaluated in exams.
We were made to make excel files in 10th. Lol.
Anyway provide some viable solutions guys..
Books are the best way to learn, thats what i feel..

what the heck? who framed such useless syllabus

 

[mehulved]

what the heck? who framed such useless syllabus

Ours was worse. Introduction to Computers in standard 5, logo in standard 6 and 7, introduction to windows in standard 8 and MS Office in Standard 9 and 10.

 

[Pathik]

^Same. And even that wasnt complete

 

[mehulved]

^Same. And even that wasnt complete

And thankfully for me, I never understood anything

 

[Pathik]

I did but I was disgusted that they wasted my 4 schooling years teaching me crap any half brained nitwit could learn in a day. So I used to shift to playing Wolf 3d and Dave instead of paying attention.

 

[bikdel]

^^ thats what happend to me. The things taught were too easy even to arouse any curiosity amongst us.
Dave, wolf, lion king, bumpy, n some sega racing games came to rescue.
I never really felt that i had to atleast learn wat was taught. So dont know logo n basic. But thats damn easy n can b learnt in no time.
So what should i look for? Just some books frm nearby bookstore?

 

[dheeraj_kumar]

^^ And they are of no use. Dont bother with LOGO and BASIC. If you want to start programming, start from VB or C. For books, get Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 hours by SAMS publishers (I have this book), or Yashwant Kanetkar's Let Us C (I dont know how this one is, just that my friends use it)

 

[Pathik]

Try cprogramming.com

 

[bikdel]

^^ And they are of no use. Dont bother with LOGO and BASIC. If you want to start programming, start from VB or C. For books, get Teach Yourself Visual Basic 6 in 24 hours by SAMS publishers (I have this book), or Yashwant Kanetkar's Let Us C (I dont know how this one is, just that my friends use it)

these book do have a general intro to "what is programming" i suppose. Wil look out for them.
@pathik. . will definitely go tn thd site once i get access to pc when i get back home.

 

[Pathik]

Google, dude.

 

[mehulved]

Yashwant Kanetkar's Let Us C (I dont know how this one is, just that my friends use it)

Most crappiest book, never ever suggest it to anyone.

 

[dheeraj_kumar]

^^ O_O okay, not even for beginners?

 

[mehulved]

^^ O_O okay, not even for beginners?

Nope. I don't know any other book but I have seen KnR and LUC. After looking at KnR, I wouldn't ever again touch LUC.

 

[FilledVoid]

I've used Yashwant Kanetkar and I personally prefer to stay away from his book.

 

[dheeraj_kumar]

Nope. I don't know any other book but I have seen KnR and LUC. After looking at KnR, I wouldn't ever again touch LUC.

Yeah, KnR is the one stop reference for C. Nothing can ever beat that.

 

[bikdel]

Whats knr?

 

[mehulved]

Whats knr?

*cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cbook/

 

[azaad_shri75]

I've used Yashwant Kanetkar and I personally prefer to stay away from his book.

+1, right said, one of the most useless books on C.

if knr is felt hard to follow by beginners one can go with this : Apress.Beginning.C.From.Novice.to.Professional.

 

[dheeraj_kumar]

Or Learn C in 21 days or 24 hours. I havent read the book personally but the SAMS series are always easy to follow, I have 4-5 books of theirs, including perl, javascript, visual basic and something else(?) and they are very helpful to beginners