07 October 2005

ltb book of 3d-vision +1int pst

There are exactly 25 students registered for Machine Perception. There were exactly 25 books ordered by the bookstore. Yesterday I attempted to buy a copy of said book, yet there were none on the shelf. An employee offerred to special order the book for me, in which case it would be nonreturnable after I received it in 5-7 business days. Seeing as how there is a homework due Tuesday, which consists entirely of book problems, I have a 10"x7" problem not in my hands.

I also need to learn LaTeX, a requirement for the Machine Perception homeworks. Can anyone recommend a good book?

5 comments:

slackwench said...

Do proofing of the math books on project gutenburg. That's how I learned.

osmodion said...

I don't think there's time to do that before Tuesday...

farniks said...

I have a book for texing but I don't really use it because it's more convenient just to keep a browser open all the time and use google to look up what you need (duals helps). If you're going to use Windows then I would download the WinEDT editor and the MikTex tex package.

slackwench said...

I don't know that there's time to learn LaTeX before Tuesday. Ask Scott what book he had it was reasonable. The "bible" of TeX is of course the Texbook, by Knuth (the inventor of Tex). It's pretty good, but LaTeX has a lot of things built in that aren't in generic TeX.

farniks said...

It's called "Digital Typography using Latex." It is by 3 Greek guys.