Ask Slashdot: Good Books and Tools For a Software/Hardware Hobbyist? 85
postermmxvicom writes "I have a friend who is a mechanic, but enjoys tinkering with software and hardware as a hobby. I want to get him a gift that will either broaden his horizons or deepen his understanding in these fields. He is proficient at soldering components and removing them from circuit boards. His programming experience is with a wide variety of scripting languages. He recently used teensy and arduino boards and an accelerometer to add some bells and whistles to a toy car he made. He also used his knowledge to help a friend find and correct weaknesses in his shareware (that would have let 'customers' share more freely than intended). He is fascinated that people can create chips to modify existing hardware. Do you know of any good books or kits (or even tools of the trade) that would appeal to a hobbyist and allow him to grow? Is there anything that might also play off of his handyman/mechanic abilities?"
"I have a friend who..." (Score:5, Funny)
>> "I have a friend who..."
C'mon, man up and admit that YOU have a question. (This is Slashdot, not Penthouse.)
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quence of commands. Did you know that with recursion you can compress a huge about of code into the tightest of spaces? It all started when I found an article "Tower of Hanoi"...