Re: [Pgubook-readers] New Book by Programming from the Ground Up Author

[arnuld uttre]

> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:33 AM, Jonathan Bartlett
>  <address@hidden> wrote:

> I apologize for not having been on this list for a few years.  My email
> address changed a while ago, and I didn't think to update my subscription!

You better apologize because we missed you a lot and I used to keep on
remembering you by reading PGU again and again :)



> 1) I just released a new book, this one for newer programmers, called "New
> Programmers Start here".  You can find the book here:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/New-Programmers-Start-Here-Introduction/dp/097528388X


That is so nice.  Wish it was there when I started learning
programming 5 years ago.




> My second announcement is that (hopefully) later this year I am putting out
> a new edition of PGU under a different title, probably "Programming Under
> the Hood".  The assembly language intro will be the first part, and then
> there will be additional chapters on how garbage collection works, reference
> counting, how object-oriented function calls work, etc.  I may update it to
> include 64-bit instructions and maybe a few vector instructions, though I
> haven't decided on that yet.  I will likely remove a few small parts that
> make it try to be a full intro to programming.

Very good move, I was waiting for the 2nd edition and removal of "full
intro to programming" parts, been several years now.


> Also, most importantly, I will actually have an editor edit the book.  There
> was an editor listed in the original PGU, but he got deathly ill during the
> writing of the book, so I left his name on it, but there was very little
> actual editing that occurred.


Jonathan, I can help you in editing the book, I got 5 years of
experience in C and some occasional hacks with C++, Lisp, Scheme,
Python, Ruby and many others I keep on remembering and forgetting. I
have used all BSDs on my home PC to do everyday routine tasks and have
been using exclusively Arch GNU/Linux for many years now. Feel free to
discuss with me. Check out my blog in my signatures. I will be more
than happy to help.

Thanks
Arnuld

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