| Children's Reading List [message #53229] |
Wed, 28 March 2007 12:44 |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
My little reading lists project has generated a good deal
more interest and e-mails than I've had in quite some time,
not to mention interesting family discussions.
http://www.dfanning.com/reading/readinglists.html
One thing that I've learned about IDL programmers is
that (for whatever reason) they read a lot of children's
books! But, of course, they are reluctant to discuss
this aspect of their lives, preferring instead to offer
a gruff "Bevington, Data Reduction and Error Analysis"
instead.
Although my children are now all grown (finally!), when
I walked around the house looking at books several showed
up on my "potential" list. (Robert Pecks The Day No Pigs
Would Die, and several Jack Prelutsky poetry books, to
name just a few.) Since children's books get read, in
my experience, THOUSANDS of times (a week!) it is helpful
to have ones that don't annoy you to death. (All the Berenstain
Bears books, with their idiotic father figure, mysteriously
disappeared from my house late one night, never to be found
again.)
So I thought if you wanted to send me your two or three
favorite children's books, I'd publish the list anonymously.
I have a feeling there are quite a number of IDL programmers
out there who would appreciate some fresh material to read
to the little ones. :-)
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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