[Air-L] computer self help press

[Peter Timusk]

About activism and the net. I am put off by most computer self help  
books being written for business applications. I wonder if anyone  
else is studying the explosion of the Diummies books, the Complete  
Idiot guides and the more serious less funny books on how to "program  
computers". What if I want to program in XML or AJAX and don't want  
to sell anything? Am I really in the computer self help book  
audience? Does any one care to discuss this? I have written an  
undergrad paper introducing the semiotics of the computer self help  
press. Is anyone working in this area of study?

Peter Timusk,

B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University
Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa.
just trying to stay linear.
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