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From: djj@reed.UUCP (_Don_Weston_Jr._)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X Documentation
Keywords: X Windows Documentation Books
Message-ID: <12845@reed.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 89 19:14:36 GMT
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Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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	This next year Reed College is going to have available to the whole 
campus a network of four DEC workstations running X.  I am looking for books 
at various levels of difficulty.  I would like one book to be an overview such 
that someone could run a statistics package and understand the interface while
avoiding technical jargon involving library routines, and definitions of  
variables inside function calls, though I am prepared to concede and write 
this one myself.

	What I would *really* like are a few books which could do for X what
_The_C_Programming_Language_ by Kernighan and Ritchie did for C.  I already
have one such book:  

_X_Window_Applications_Programming_ by Eric F. Johnson and Kevin Reichard.  
	c.1989 Management Information Source, Inc.,
        P.O.Box 5277
        Portland OR 97208-5277

	   (It was mentioned in this net about a month ago -- thank you)
           This books starts out with honest C code and works its way up.

     My overriding goal is to get a room full of intermediate level programmers
to write some useful code.  They want to, but need something to get started.

		Thanks
                      and Have A Nice Day :-)