“C Programming in Linux” by David Haskins. An alternative to “The C Programming Language” by Kernighan and Ritchie

I found this great book for learning C. Lesson 1 is the usual “hello world” console app, but literally the next example dives into using it as a CGI script. It teaches all the usual C console output stuff, but concentrates on web programming with C and apache web server. This is great, as the…

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Dijkstra & Mathematics Inc.

Pretty funny, this is swiped from the Wikipedia entry for Dijkstra. He’s a pretty important figure in computer science. “One of Dijkstra’s sidelines was serving as Chairman of the Board of the fictional Mathematics Inc., a company that he imagined having commercialized the production of mathematical theorems in the same way that software companies had…

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Software Patents

Great video against software patentability funded by the fsfIt gives a nice bit of history and background. Link is here: http://patentabsurdity.com/watch.html