[Courses] Book, etc.

[Tania M. Morell]

bookpool has it for $21.50   If anyone finds it for cheaper, lemme know.

-T

         T a n i a
www.myquadrant.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Murrain" <tech at murrain.net>
To: <courses at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:39 PM
Subject: [Courses] Book, etc.


> OK, well, since I'm course coordinator, and there wasn't a consensus among
> folks who weighed in on the earlier discussion about a book, I'm just
going
> to be arbitrary (well, not really, it's one of the books I have and I
liked
> the little bit I've done of it) and choose Practical C programming by
Steve
> Oualline, published by O'Reilly. Several folks said they had it, and I
> heard no negative comments about it, as I did about other books.
>
> There are 23 chapters, 21 of them have exercises (chapter 1 and 23 do
not).
>
> I think 3 chapters every 2 weeks seems doable - that means that this
course
> would go 16 weeks, which is almost 4 months. Let's start with that pace,
> and if it seems like that is too fast or too slow for the majority of
> folks, we can adjust.
>
> Let's arbitrarily set every other Friday as the date when the 3 chapters
> are "due".
>
> Oh, btw - your course coordinator is going to be out of e-mail contact
from
> later tonight through the 27th.  I'm going on vacation. :-) Since this is
> true, and people need time to get the book, let's set Friday February 8th
> as the first deadline, for chapters 1,2 and 3. How does that sound?
>
> IRC: the IRC server on linuxchix.org isn't working - I'll try and get Jenn
> or Dancer on it when I get back.
>
> .Michelle
>
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