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The 2015 Open Source Summer Reading List
ectoman writes: Opensource.com has just published its annual Open Source Summer Reading List. This year's edition contains 15 recommendations for books that celebrate open source values and practices. Topics include Python programming, Grace Hopper, open-minded leadership, and teaching children to code. There are also books on the philosophy of open information, an intro to DIY/Maker activities, and even a book about mastering Emacs.
What would you add to this list?
Read books about open source? Lol, just read the source code instead.
Try translating ancient BASIC games into Python or another modern language.
http://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/
They spelled Vim wrong. :wq
Open source values and practices? Is that like posting how you hate MS on every blog you can find? They mentioned teaching children to code. Is that an open source practice? Like no one learnt MASM when they were kids because they were from a poor country or something? The open source community is the least "open minded" community in existence. They are parrots for the most part. For the original question I would pick up any self-help title that helps them deal with being insecure and arrogant. Even if it doesn't help the reader, it might help them deal with their peers in the “community”.
Jean-Michel Smith's science fiction novel _Autonomy_ would be a good summer read. It's about a small group of open source revolutionaries who work to transcend through their own singularity. Unfortunately they are hounded by government agencies and the UN, who want to destroy them without ever understanding what they are and what they offer the world. It's a clever novel that promotes a lot of open source values. http://www.amazon.com/Autonomy-Jean-Michel-Smith/dp/0983188858/
How does a book about how to use emacs "celebrate open source values and practices"?
How would teaching children to code increase inequality? Are you saying that the poor kids are not capable of learning to code? Last I checked, you can teach poor kids as well as rich kids to code, it isn't an inherent quality of socioeconomic status as to whether you can be taught to code.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
How would teaching children to code increase inequality?
Because smart kids learn faster than dumb kids, and although it is non-PC to say so, rich kids tend to be smarter than poor kids. But you should not accept that inequality is inherently bad. If you can pull everyone up, but benefit the rich disproportionately, that is still better than pushing everyone down to the same level.
How did it come to this, that a once great tech mag is reduced to spamming the Internet with slashvertisments for the MICROS~1 corporation. Currently on the main page: 11 mentions of Windows and 05 mentions of Microsoft.
I would add that rich kids have more advantages and fewer stressors; that said, I look forward to the day when the vast majority of humanity has nothing but first world problems, regardless of who or how we get there.
I would add that rich kids have more advantages and fewer stressors
Sure, and they also face different social pressures. Studies have shown that white/Asian kids become more popular, and have more friends, as their grades improve. Black/Hispanic kids become less popular. By the time they reach high school, too many poor kids have figured out that the best way to make friends and attract the girls, is to be an anti-intellectual smartass. That is a difficult culture to change.
If you think you're one of the haves, you're wrong; unless your idea of difficult a difficult choice is deciding which Ferrari you want to drive.
The disparity of income between the haves and have-nots is so great now that even the 1% are poor compared with the .1% .
The rich kids, they don't need to code; not when they have people to do it for them. They just need to learn to manage their parents assets and trust-funds.
Book: Help Your Kids with Computer Coding http://www.amazon.com/Help-You... Got this for my nearly 8 year old and it's an awesome book to start the kids on. Starts them off with Scratch and moves them on to Python.
Throw them all out and have them watch "handmade hero"
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and articles detailing the files you can touch to make Emacs users scream.
Catch-22, Ghost Soldiers, Grapes of Wrath, A Farewell to Arms, all great reads. You'll get much more out of them than some programming book. Expand your horizons, you're human after all.