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Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

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Post by there »

Groxx wrote: post #51

This really needs a persistent website of some kind somewhere. Otherwise this is practically doomed to obscurity in a week or so. Unless this sort of thing is better suited to being highly temporary, with new ones spawning whenever someone gets the itch? I don't see how, but I may not be thinking of something.

i made http://hntrades.com/ this afternoon after reading the domain thread.

it supports adding books, though i could work on some code to be able to put in an isbn number to automatically pull the book information.

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

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Post by jperras »

jimmyjim wrote: post #43

I'm a first year CE student with not a lot of cash to spare-- I would absolutely love either SICP or K&R's 'C Programming Language'. I have them both in digital format, but it'd be extremely nice having them in dead-tree format as well since I get eye strain from looking at the LCD screen for too long.

I've got a copy of both, but I don't think I could part with them.

Got an Amazon wishlist?

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

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Post by arjn »

nibot wrote: post #42
arjn wrote: post #40

Neat!! I had a similar idea a while ago , for any books. The idea was to read a book, then write your name/email in it and leave it somewhere where someone else may pick it up and read. Then they in turn would write their name/emails in it and leave it somewhere, and so on and so forth. It would be cool to see how many people read that book after a couple of months/years.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/

Wooo! looks like i'm not the only one. though my intention was to leave the book lying around in someplace like a cafe and where someone may pick it up and continue the chain.

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

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Post by jimmyjim »

jperras wrote: post #62
jimmyjim wrote: post #43

I'm a first year CE student with not a lot of cash to spare-- I would absolutely love either SICP or K&R's 'C Programming Language'. I have them both in digital format, but it'd be extremely nice having them in dead-tree format as well since I get eye strain from looking at the LCD screen for too long.

I've got a copy of both, but I don't think I could part with them. Got an Amazon wishlist?

Now I do:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/3SFSFIGEGKWS4

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

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Post by weaksauce »

silentbicycle wrote: post #52
Groxx wrote: post #51

This really needs a persistent website of some kind somewhere. Otherwise this is practically doomed to obscurity in a week or so. Unless this sort of thing is better suited to being highly temporary, with new ones spawning whenever someone gets the itch? I don't see how, but I may not be thinking of something.

There's already bookmooch, bookcrossing, etc. Unfortunately, when bookmooch released an open search API, people strip-mined collections for anything they could re-sell for profit on amazon. It needs to be handled very carefully.

make it tied to your hn account and have a karma limit? I know that it can be easily gamed but as a low pass filter it would be fairly successful.

Have someone create an account on the site and then the site gives a token to put in your profile to verify. After that it is linked.

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

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Post by num1 »

p206 wrote: post #59
num1 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love to accept it, would you like to trade for Rework, Just for Fun, Getting Real, or any of my numerous books on Java/Linux/C/Game development/AI/3D game development?

Sounds good. How about an AI introductory book, if you have any?

How does this look?

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Game-Example-Mat-Buckland/...

It's based on C++, and covers state machines, fuzzy logic, etc. It's a little old so there is no mention of behavior trees, but it does cover goal-driven behavior and is a great introduction to most techniques in AI.

you can email me at p206@briancloutier.com

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

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Post by num1 »

Groxx wrote: post #51

This really needs a persistent website of some kind somewhere. Otherwise this is practically doomed to obscurity in a week or so. Unless this sort of thing is better suited to being highly temporary, with new ones spawning whenever someone gets the itch? I don't see how, but I may not be thinking of something.

I think this is doomed as a full-time website, once someone has traded a book they want to sit down and read it for a while before they trade again, so there will be very low traffic.

This thing is great as a yearly thread though, wait for all the pressure of unwanted books to build up and then throw them into one thread. Then once the pressure has dissipated wait until next year to do it again.

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

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Post by num1 »

Mod_daniel wrote: post #48

Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation; Hopcroft Ullmann (the cinderella book), Object Oriented Python; Goldwasser Letscher, An Introduction to Database Systems; Date, C Programming A Modern Approach; K.N King, Mastering Algorithms with C Loudon, Computer Logic Designs and Applications; Hsu. Live in Chicago, happy to help.

Mastering Algorithms sounds great. I live in Tucson, AZ but could paypal you shipping. Is there a particular type of book you would want to trade for? My library is small but has a few gems.

Re: Gift HN: Book Giveaway/Exchange

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Post by glork »

glork wrote: post #34

I've got a relatively new Wicket in Action (Apache Wicket), Code Complete, and Rapid Development. I'd trade for some web programming books (CSS/JS/RoR). Mid-atlantic USA.

I've also got Software Architecture in Practice, 2nd edition, by Bass et al.
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