Re: New User

["Billy N. Patton" <bpatton dal asp ti com>]

I'm a rookie to Gnome/GTK.  Just had helix??? installed on my solaris 7
box at work then got myself a sinus infection and haven't had time to play
with it.  Decided to give gtk+ programming a try and after many question
and many answers I went a bought GNOME/GTK+ PRogramming Bible by Author
Griffith.  IDG books # 4640-6  IT has told me more since I bouth it
Saturday than any of the other online documentaion/examples I have found.


On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Michael Vanecek wrote:

> Before spending a lot of money for these books, I'd follow a few
> tutorials just to see if you're going to be comfortable programming with
> Gtk. One book will quickly grow to several. Gnome books cover Gnome
> programming which uses Gtk, but with differences. If you want to develop
> in Gnome, that's all and fine, but I'd still recommend an additional
> book or a few for Gtk itself to kinda give you an under-the-hood look at
> how things are done. For starters, I've had good luck with the Sams
> "Teach Yourself Gtk in 21 days" book - it's simply written and fairly
> easy for a novice to follow. But don't depend on any single book - get a
> few. Budget a couple hundred bucks and build up a good starter library,
> or better yet, throw the budget away because you'll blow it easily... :)
> What books you get will largely depend on your programming background.
> If you're an experienced programmer, you may find the Sams book beneath
> you. If you're new to programming, you'll probably also want to get
> general programming books, books on graphics, and depending on what kind
> of programming you want to do books that cover those topics - like
> database development or number-crunching, etc... Also, you may find the
> customer comments at Amazon to be helpful.
> 
> Mike
> 
> CyborgHead netscape net wrote:
> > 
> > Hello All.
> >     I am new to this liat, so Hello. Also I am totally new to using GTK and  have absolutly no clue at all. I was in my local book store and saw a book, THE GNOME FOR LINUX BIBLE. Would this be a good buy, to learn the basics, or would it be better just to follow a few basic tutorials on the web before I invest.
> >    Thanks.
> >       Ciaran.
> > 
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