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Amazon's Best Computer Books of 2004

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-strange-list dept.

theodp writes "Amazon.com's Editors have announced their selections for the Best Books of 2004 in the Computers and Internet category. Their favorite book of the year? Excel Hacks, which edged out Head First Servlets & JSP (#3), a Grand Theft Auto Strategy Guide (#5) and The Data Warehouse ETL Toolkit (#8). Can Slashdot readers offer some more inspired choices?"

8 of 228 comments (clear)

  1. Best computer book of the year - 1979 by Realistic_Dragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Valves - why they are better than transistors.
    Transistors - why they are better than valves.
    The Transputer - computing the future in paralell.
    Pong - strategy guide.

    And the number one computing book of 1979.

    Miss DEC - the pagent.

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  2. Best computer book ever by 91degrees · · Score: 5, Funny

    They didn't mention The story about ping Clearly the best introduction to this network test tool.

    Just look at the reviews, especially the one from John E. Fracisco.

  3. Re:How did they choose? by mwood · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably by running a quick query:

    SELECT quantityonhand FROM booksinwarehouse SORTED BY quantityonhand DESCENDING

    and taking the first ten rows.

    (Yes, I typed that off the top of my head, and I don't wallow in SQL 8x5 every week.)

  4. how about us dummies? by koi88 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't buy no book that doesn't have "for dummies" in the title.
    So I wanna preorder
    • Excel Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools for dummies
    • The World's 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems for dummies
    But really interesting sounds No. 4:
    • On Intelligence for dummies
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  5. I have a $20 suggestion by antifoidulus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Best career book you can buy

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  6. Re:How did they choose? by wwwojtek · · Score: 5, Funny
    (Yes, I typed that off the top of my head, and I don't wallow in SQL 8x5 every week.)

    Sure you don't. I ran your query and here is what I got
    1032423
    323234
    323321
    34422
    32425
    23443
    23323
    23421
    10008
    8777
    not very interesting, isn't it?

  7. Re:How did they choose? by redivider · · Score: 5, Funny

    SELECT nerds FROM slashdot_comments WHERE takes_a_joke='way too seriously'

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  8. Actually it is interesting by scovetta · · Score: 4, Funny

    1032423
    323234
    323321
    34422
    32425
    23443
    2332 3 <--- they need a new
    23421 <--- database engine
    10008
    8777

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    Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche