What 20 books would you put in the library?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jan 24, 2008, at 20:43, Ted Roche wrote:

> What books would you recommend?

Out of twenty I'd limit 20% to theory of open source.  Then, for a  
public library, the focus should be on books on learning subjects,  
not ones to keep around for dog-eared references, excepting cases  
where intro books aren't common or great.  Some examples:

O'Reilly:
Running Linux
Learning[Perl, Python]
Using Samba

Pragmatic Programmer:
Programming Ruby
Agile Web Development with Rails

Apress:
Beginning Ubuntu Linux
Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional

And, applicable to OSS, but xplat:

O'Reilly:
JavaScript
Cascading Stylesheets
Mastering Regular Expressions

And probably an intro-to-java book, now open source and very common  
in schools.

-Bill

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