Computer bookstores in GTA

Peter plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Sun Aug 14 23:02:44 UTC 2005



On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

> First of all, why do you buy computer books when everything (or close to 
> that) is on the Internet?
>
> OK, I did buy a few compter related books in the past as well, but... I dont 
> think I ever read them and certainly they were not very helpfull... ;)
>
> Perl? Go and use it. Figure out yourself, how... PHP? It is pretty simple and 
> full documentation is available for free. Apache? Install and configure it - 
> thats it. Web development? Common... That can not be learned from books.
>
> Perhaps as a reference, in some rare cases, books might be usefull. But not 
> for learning ;)

It is said that experience is the best friend and the worst teacher. The 
worst teacher, because it will show you all the mistakes after you make 
them.

Peter
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