[Air-L] computer self help press
Peter Timusk
ptimusk at sympatico.ca
Wed Nov 21 23:06:12 PST 2007
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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