Irq42 Is Pickles

Just started reading "Ghost in the wires", by Kevin Mitnick. Haven't made it very far yet, but it seems very interesting with his stories of how he became one of the most wanted hackers, how it all started and what motivated him (mostly curiosity, it seems).

 

i've got plauger, though i never got around to doing anything about learning c, and carnagee i inhiereted from my dad, but i don't see it on my shelf so i may have not hung on to it in one of my moves.

 

The only R.J. Plauger book I know would be the one mentioned, does he have others? I'd imagine they'd be academic if that was the case. Never the less, The Standard C Library isn't a good book for learning the C language, it's more of a reference manual for the standard lib functions, their use and implementation.

 

youp, that's the one i have. i don't remember why i got it. i think i did have some other c books, including learning ones. i've got a couple of phython books which are potentially more useful to me. both for itself and because blender uses python as its scripting language of choice. but really i haven't played seriously with programing since waaay baack in the days of spagetti basic. and that was before even the hardware could support what i'm doing now. none of my reference books are really up to date. i was in barns and noble the other day looking for current python and blender books. they had tons of java and photoshop related stuff, but only one of each of python or blender that were concurrent with the latest itterations of either. the two of them together would have cost more then a hundred bucks. just for two effing books. well the town i live in doesn't exactly have a lot of book stores. and i don't really like buying things on line unless i really have to.

 

I hate JS (probably due to lack of knowledge, and the fact that it just seems pretty weird for me ... like what exactly is this variable or object, what's its type ... am I supposed to guess or pour over a bunch of spaghetti code to find out what its type is) ... don't know much python, but it seems like a very worthwhile language to learn. I usually use C as my language of choice, or shell scripts or a combo of both. I reallly need to get around to learning python, but supposed to be trying to learn C++ right now and am procrastinating horribly in learning it (and also very busy with limited time and writing in a language I already know pretty well means I'm more productive and can get things done faster... just because I'm hard headed and it's easier to write programs in a Language I know pretty well, vs spending time learning one and trying to write a program in it and spend time fixing all the mistakes I'm bound to make. You can do some quasi OOP type stuff in C ... its just not built into the language so you have to roll it yoursef if you need it and not all programs need OOP.

One of these days I just need to take some of the programs I've written, and try writing the same program in a new language. It would just take me longer, since I'd have to struggle through the initial learning curve. Also need to learn a bit more mySQL, it's just these books are kind of expensive ... but I can get a mySQL pocket reference for about $10 bucks at B&N. i probably wouldn't get a deep understanding from it, but it'd definitely be useful to get me by if I needed to use some SQL for some reason.