Which book first?
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For Christmas I received two books, Inside C# second edition and Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler. I was wondering what book I should read first. Whats you opinion?:confused: Why waste time learning when ignorance in instantaneous -Hobbes
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For Christmas I received two books, Inside C# second edition and Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler. I was wondering what book I should read first. Whats you opinion?:confused: Why waste time learning when ignorance in instantaneous -Hobbes
Inside C#. Definitely read Inside C#. The .NET IL Assembler book is really heavy reading and the C# book is a good intro to IL.
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
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Inside C#. Definitely read Inside C#. The .NET IL Assembler book is really heavy reading and the C# book is a good intro to IL.
I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder Microsoft has reinvented the wheel, this time they made it round. -Peterchen on VS.NET
Alright, thanks for the advice. So Inside C# it is! Why waste time learning when ignorance in instantaneous -Hobbes
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For Christmas I received two books, Inside C# second edition and Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler. I was wondering what book I should read first. Whats you opinion?:confused: Why waste time learning when ignorance in instantaneous -Hobbes
Brian O. wrote: I was wondering what book I should read first. Cities in Flight by James Blish. Brilliant work. ;) You should be relaxing, not boning up on technical stuff! Got the whole rest of the new year to do that.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaPaul Watson wrote: "The Labia [cinema]... ...was opened by Princess Labia in May 1949..." Christian Graus wrote: See, I told you it was a nice name for a girl...
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For Christmas I received two books, Inside C# second edition and Inside Microsoft .NET IL Assembler. I was wondering what book I should read first. Whats you opinion?:confused: Why waste time learning when ignorance in instantaneous -Hobbes
I'd say Inside C# .. because I know it's good. :-D Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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Brian O. wrote: I was wondering what book I should read first. Cities in Flight by James Blish. Brilliant work. ;) You should be relaxing, not boning up on technical stuff! Got the whole rest of the new year to do that.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaPaul Watson wrote: "The Labia [cinema]... ...was opened by Princess Labia in May 1949..." Christian Graus wrote: See, I told you it was a nice name for a girl...
Well said! Though I am playing with a website redesign today...:-O Paul Watson wrote: Cities in Flight by James Blish. Haven't seen it. What's the book about? What qualifies it as "Brilliant?" "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
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Well said! Though I am playing with a website redesign today...:-O Paul Watson wrote: Cities in Flight by James Blish. Haven't seen it. What's the book about? What qualifies it as "Brilliant?" "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)
Roger Wright wrote: Haven't seen it. What's the book about? What qualifies it as "Brilliant?" It is actually three books which James Blish wrote over his career. His masterwork as they call it. For me the brilliance in the book was that he married science with culture into not only a believable story but an enlightining one. His universe was very well modelled and thought out, not just a hodge podge of systems which ask you to look the other way when there is a glarring hole in the logic or timeline. The science did not dominate but was a tool of the characters and was neccesary. i.e. not just cool ray guns for cool ray guns sake. He also creates human characters that do human things that you cannot always agree with. I normally avoid books where the hero makes me feel uneasy, but in this case it was so well done I read on. Near the end especially the meaning and point of the book becomes very clear and it is a refreshing point, not the usual good vs. evil, ra ra America good guy wins point. And the science, at least to me, was very challenging. None of this made up ray gun rubbish non-scientific authors pulp out, but real, thought out stuff that made my head hurt and which I only understood a bit of. You probably would get more of it than I did :) The book obviously had it's faults, as all broad, epic works do, but all in all well worth the read. James Blish apparently is a very well respected SF author, one of the Futurians (along with Asimov) and my dad was chuffed I was reading "classic" SF :-D
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaPaul Watson wrote: "The Labia [cinema]... ...was opened by Princess Labia in May 1949..." Christian Graus wrote: See, I told you it was a nice name for a girl...
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Roger Wright wrote: Haven't seen it. What's the book about? What qualifies it as "Brilliant?" It is actually three books which James Blish wrote over his career. His masterwork as they call it. For me the brilliance in the book was that he married science with culture into not only a believable story but an enlightining one. His universe was very well modelled and thought out, not just a hodge podge of systems which ask you to look the other way when there is a glarring hole in the logic or timeline. The science did not dominate but was a tool of the characters and was neccesary. i.e. not just cool ray guns for cool ray guns sake. He also creates human characters that do human things that you cannot always agree with. I normally avoid books where the hero makes me feel uneasy, but in this case it was so well done I read on. Near the end especially the meaning and point of the book becomes very clear and it is a refreshing point, not the usual good vs. evil, ra ra America good guy wins point. And the science, at least to me, was very challenging. None of this made up ray gun rubbish non-scientific authors pulp out, but real, thought out stuff that made my head hurt and which I only understood a bit of. You probably would get more of it than I did :) The book obviously had it's faults, as all broad, epic works do, but all in all well worth the read. James Blish apparently is a very well respected SF author, one of the Futurians (along with Asimov) and my dad was chuffed I was reading "classic" SF :-D
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaPaul Watson wrote: "The Labia [cinema]... ...was opened by Princess Labia in May 1949..." Christian Graus wrote: See, I told you it was a nice name for a girl...
Paul Watson wrote: James Blish apparently is a very well respected SF author He's one of the best, though quite unappreciated by many. I don't know why, really, as he's always given a good read and a nice balance between science and story. I'll have to check this one out, since I got a gift card for a book store for xmas - for me that's as good as candy to a little kid!:-D "How many times do I have to flush before you go away?" - Megan Forbes, on Management (12/5/2002)