What 20 books would you put in the library?

[David J Berube]

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Bill McGonigle wrote:
> 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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