Technical Audio Books - Where Are The Good Ones? 37
Gverig asks: "Are any good audio (CD) books for developers, engineers or just geeks. These can be lectures on programming concepts, introductions to systems, best practices, ethics, or even funny stories ala Dilbert. What audio books do you have that help you sharpen your technical skills and improve yourself as a professional?"
Re:Look here. (Score:2)
Re:Look here. (Score:1)
Audio Books Online (Score:4, Informative)
Sharpen my skills? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Sharpen my skills? (Score:2)
Way back, I converted Schwartz's 'Learning Perl' (the llama book by O'Reilly press) to an mp3 and used it while working out -- it's quite convenient, but I ended up scrapping it later on, just because I learn quicker when I'm actually at a computer to test commands.
Also, after trying audiobooks, it's easier to just use normal books when studying, since it's easy to flip to the glossary/index to get syntax
University of Washington's presentations (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayseries.asp?co
Re:University of Washington's presentations (Score:4, Interesting)
Quantum Mechanics on Tape! (Score:5, Funny)
I've been trying to save time by learning Quantum during my daily commute. It's tough going:
Yeah, that drive is extra-special fun now.
GMD
Re:Quantum Mechanics on Tape! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Quantum Mechanics on Tape! (Score:2, Funny)
Damn, if only I hadn't fallen asleep at the wheel I'd be building quantum computers by now instead of being dead.
Oh well.
That's QM for you!?!
Re:Quantum Mechanics on Tape! (Score:2)
Re:Quantum Mechanics on Tape! (Score:2)
IT Conversations (Score:4, Informative)
Keep an eye on Podcasts. Most of the technical shows I've found on there are just a gloss-over, but something good has to come around sooner or later.
Re:IT Conversations (Score:1)
"There", referring to Podcasting, not ITCon, which is a rather good site.
How about the library? (Score:2)
Not as effective... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not as effective... (Score:1)
Podcast.. (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.codesermon.org/ [codesermon.org]
Re:Podcast.. (Score:2)
Podcasts (Score:5, Informative)
Feynman Lectures. All of them. (Score:5, Informative)
Vol 1-2 [amazon.com] are on Quantum Mechanics. 3-4 [amazon.com] covers crystal structure, electricity, and magnetism. 5-6 goes through energy, motion, kinetics, and heat. 7-8 [amazon.com] does classical and relativistic mechanics (and gravity and a bit more electromagnetism). More should be coming. I think they are up to volume 20 of the tape sets. Each volume has about six chapters from the books. I think there are 129 chapters all-told.
Re:Feynman Lectures. All of them. (Score:2)
One problem is that Feynman often says, "As you can see on this diagram..." and then you hear chalk on a blackboard for a bit. I can usually fugure out roughly what he drew, but I think that something like this would actually be perfect as a slide show on the iPod photo
Dilbert (Score:2)
Scott Adams actually does have a lot of audiobooks. The Dilbert Boxed Gift Set [amazon.com] contains The Dilbert Principle [amazon.com], Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook [amazon.com], and The Dilbert Future [amazon.com].
Since those, he's come out with Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel [amazon.com] and The Joy of Work [amazon.com].
Podcasts (Score:3, Informative)
Someone else already mentioned , but it's worth recommending again. [itconversations.com]
The Teaching Company (Score:2)
Alex.
Teaching company rocks! (Score:1)
Guido van Rossum on Python (Score:3, Informative)
I just listened to 2 talks by Guido van Rossum about python
See here [itconversations.com] and here
Believe it or not, I heard part of it while shopping at Walmart.
Truthfully though, aside from journalistic coverage of new technology, it's very difficult to present technical information via audio (though not impossible).
Actually, I'm a little surprised that The Teaching Company (the company that produces those college classes on tape) haven't tried any technical classes.
More relaxing than educational, but... (Score:1)
Yeah, that would work. (Score:2)
"Here is some sample code. char asterick foo equals new char open bracket three zero close bracket semicolon."