umd

I have a lot of the "standard" programming books. I also have some ancient computer science books that I rescued out of our library cleanup at work maybe a decade ago. "Computer Architecture" (1970) and "Encyclopedia of Computer Science" (1976). Neither is really useful anymore, but it's neat to have saved a little bit of history.

slynkie

yep you got it. sorry, wasn't trying to be obscure just easier to type K&R, etc. Also Stevens' other books too - good stuff.

i've never read the dragon book, would like to...the book we used for my compiler class was a P.O.S. don't remember the name.

carpediemracing 

Ah interesting. I better not google it.

slynkie

I tried painting some Dragonlance (AD&D) miniatures when I was a kid. Turns out if you've got zero artistic skills in general, combining something you love with those lack of skills does not automatically equal awesome.

carpediemracing 

I used to play D&D. We had the book that had the copyright violation creatures in it - apparently it's worth a lot now. A few years ago my bro gave all our books to a D&D fanatic friend of his. Much better that someone appreciates it.

D&D with tanks and stuff? Talk about potential time warp material for me.

A time warp hobby I had was building plastic models, mainly WW2 or cars. I still have them all boxed away, along with the unfinished ones. When you try and build a literal army (last count was over 1000 little guys) with their support equipment...

I like your quote: "combining something you love with those lack of skills does not automatically equal awesome"

Heh.

ridethecliche

I suck at drawing/painting/what have you, but I got crazy with these things. I got really good at detailing them and going absolutely nuts with the texture/etc.

Some of the stuff I painted rivals the stuff here:
https://kofler.dot.at/40k/tyranid.html

slynkie

wow some of those are pretty sweet. let's see your stuff!

agoodale

Must be a quick read (Sorry I couldn't resist teasing my old friend MS.)

I actually love Microsoft. I've been developing with their software since VB3/SQL 6.0 and have few complaints. For a small business developing & selling solutions MS development tools are hard to beat. They're a good price, easy to learn/use, and reliable (as long as you stay away from their hot "new" products).

Dusty old books in my library:

"LAN TIMES Guide to SQL"
"Contemporary Systems Analysis"
"Modern Structured Analysis"

All learning now is done with: Help files, Google search, & Experts Exchange

ridethecliche

I'll have to take pictures when I get home for thanksgiving. I'll take the SLR.

I hope they're still in one piece. My mom would knock a few off and break them when I wasn't home. I didn't care because I was in college and I used to paint those things in HS. I just wish I had better brushes because mine were always too big for the eyes...

The super geeky thing is that they have novels. I've read a few. Depending on the author, they're actually pretty good. Atleast they were in 9th grade...

umd

I thought everyone just called it K&R.

Matt, I'm surprised you don't have Code Complete.

waterrockets 

I loved my compilers class. We used ELI, which sort of had its own lexx and yacc, and added languages for types and all the other crap. Pretty cool. Then we turned around and used it to implement a compiler for my Sr. Project (2 semesters at 4 credits each) that converted a commercial proprietary language into Java. That company actually used the system for their installed airline reservation systems to catch up since Java had been introduced since they had gotten started. Those were the days.

Urthwhyte

The book is nearly twice as old as me and even I call it K&R. Takes me a second to think of what it stands for.

Since we're on the topic of what we're reading, here's what's currently on my desk (Kindle, technically):

• Peopleware
• The Ruby Programming Language
• Agile Web Development with Rails
• Enterprise Rails
• SICP
• Programming in Haskell*

I don't even like Rails.

umd

Haha, we used Haskell in our programming languages class.

Anyone used/heard of Eiffel?

jwible

So I just rode my bike on the trainer. 1 minutes intervals.

Urthwhyte

I like it a lot for aiding in my maths course, but for day to day stuff I default to Python or C#. Partly due to the majority of my non schoolwork related programming being in web development, partly because there is only so much of FP I can grok without approaching caffeine overdose levels.
Only when related to the mention of design by contract

Urthwhyte

This reminds me that I need to start working on that Golden Cheetah project. Need to find an ANT+ USB stick somewhere in this technology-forsaken country first through.

jwible

Damn, I was just trying to pollute this thread with bike talk.

tallmantim

Yeah - as stated the tank is supposed to come from 38,000 years in the future where WWI and WWII equipment is de rigueur matched alongside plasma pistols and las cannons.

Me and my son both got one at the same time, I still need to finish building mine, but helping my son airbrush his at the moment.

LOL - wrong forum to garner a lot of laughs from that joke though!



In regards to books and stuff, I am enjoying geeking out on exercise physiology and cycling science at the moment. Currently following through the ADP/ATP energy cycle. Thinking about doing a correspondence degree in the area for interest (I have lost my passion for IT, but as the sole income earner for my family it pays well for what is now easy stress free/low stress work so no change of careers for me!)

tallmantim

I remember the name - is it an old AI language like LISP?

(stretching my mind back to doing robotics classes!)

pjcampbell

probably better just not surf the net from work. or not let them figure out how to filter it.

wens

IP address may still work.

umd

Not very old, 25 years or so. It's an object oriented language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_...mming_language)

It popped in my head because I went to high school with one of his daughters and she showed up at my house on halloween trick-or-treating with her kids. Turns out her younger sister moved into his old house which apparently is almost directly across the street from me, and she bought a house around the corner.

tallmantim

That's really cool RTC.

Here is the last tank I painted which has the WWI/WWII feel to it:



I did that a few months back...

Fun to do hobby stuff with the kids and share their interests. Being a geek can make you the "Cool Dad" to a group of 13 year old boys (running their first D&D adventure for them and stuff).

Discovered something interesting - my work filters anything with the word "Twitter" in the URL, but BF allows you to trim the URL, so instead of:

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...-feed/page1732

which I can't access I can go to:

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...24026/page1732

which my work proxy allows me to.

Oh - and IP Address won't work for BF - it redirects to the URL, so accessing through https://67.201.17.199 will repoint you to the regular URL.

umd

This just reminded me of the movie "Final Countdown"

mattm

A great point - I have the old 1st edition at home, but I should just go ahead and buy the latest & greatest version.

It's mentioned a good deal in OO books.... never used it though.

The most obscure language I've used is Ada 95, which is actually object-oriented! That and LISP, which was really weird.