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Comment The End Purpose? (Score 1) 85

by brasspen on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @02:01PM (#25558397) Attached to: The IDA Pro Book

I'm weening myself off an addiction to esoteric info in compsci to deepen a few areas. This would be great to learn how things work, but what are you going to build with it? I'm not so keen on learning for its sake these days. What is the reader going to build? I think just taking the work of others and stealing it to sell it is a bit feeble. Is there a constructive use here beyond knowledge for knowledge's sake?

Submission + - New Squeak Book Released On The Creative Common (squeak.org)

Submitted by brasspen on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @03:00PM

brasspen writes: All those 25,000 people buying their OLPCs under the G1G1 program may want a book to examine how the innards of the Squeak portion works. Squeak is part of the EToys section of the One Laptop Per Child project. The European Smalltalk Users Group has released an open source book on the Creative Commons called Squeak By Example, which is the first book to be published as a primer on the Squeak/Smalltalk system in about a decade. It's available free as a PDF. The details are on a press release on the Squeak homepage.

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