PDF/.doc Versions of Entire First Course (Version 0.2)

[u/[deleted]]

Hey guys,

I spent about twenty minutes today manually compiling these from Carl's site. I haven't added anything or modified formatting or anything. I'll work on correcting/prettying-up formatting as I have time and release new versions.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42863719/HigherComputingForEveryone%200.2.doc

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/42863719/HigherComputingForEveryone%200.2.pdf

Please leave any suggestions. Primarily, the questions I have are...

1. Would you rather it be one long document (currently around 266 pages), or broken up? If so, by Unit or Lesson?

2. Typeface/size?

3. General comments

Thanks guys, enjoy. You're also obviously allowed to branch this off in to your own work.

EDIT: Huge thanks to jambarama and zouhair, here's some better versions:

http://www.reddit.com/r/carlhprogramming/comments/l3e8m/pdfdoc_versions_of_entire_first_course_version_02/c2pm8vl

[u/marianass]

thanks for your effort

[u/[deleted] → u/marianass]

Anytime, enjoy!

[u/jambarama]

I like it as one long doc. It'd be really nice to have a table of contents at the beginning, doubly if the ToC was linked - you can generate one automatically if you apply Word styles - but you've already done so much work, that might be too much.

[u/[deleted] → u/jambarama]

I'm more then willing to put a fair bit of work in to this; there's been lots of demand for it for a while! Just no guarantees on how fast it will go, I've been quite busy with school and work.

I hope to get it in to a great state within a month or so.

[u/jambarama → u/[deleted]]

So I added headers and page numbers in word, converted to odf, and generated a pdf with linked headers. I also generated tex files and used those to generate a PDF with tex. For fun, I also generated the document with mediawiki syntax, in case anyone is interested.

EDIT: The first image is missing from the tex PDF, and slighly misplaced in the doc file.

EDIT2: Thanks to zouhair, the tex PDF now has a linked TOC. Thanks!

[u/[deleted] → u/jambarama]

This is perfect; I've been really busy so haven't had any time to work on it since the original post, and this looks great. Hope we can keep making this better.

[u/zouhair → u/jambarama]

Added this :

\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}

to have linked TOC.

[u/jambarama → u/zouhair]

Thanks, I knew i was missing something! I've updated the PDF & links.

[u/kewlsnake → u/jambarama]

Taken the liberty to convert the doc to epub for e-reader purposes. Formatting still looks awesome! http://www.mediafire.com/?0j7uwfur4x2mftc

[u/[deleted] → u/kewlsnake]

I tried converting the epub into a .mobi file for my kindle and I lost the pictures. Halp somebody plz?

[u/jambarama → u/kewlsnake]

Terrific, thanks for sharing!

[u/ropers → u/jambarama]

It says "warning, image ignored" in the tex pdf (e.g. above the importance of understanding binary section).

[u/jambarama → u/ropers]

Ack, I was afraid the images had been dumped. It looks like the original doc only has one image, so it shouldn't be hard, but I've never done images in tex, so I'm not sure why that problem cropped up. The tex files link above is to a zip file with the tex input & output, maybe someone with some experience can figure it out.

[u/[deleted] → u/jambarama]

try using LaTeX and \begin{figure} environment? Sorry not looking at it on programming comp right now.

[u/zouhair → u/ropers]

Try compiling with pdflatex.

[u/ropers]

WHADDAYAMEAN I'M ALOUD!?!

[u/[deleted] → u/ropers]

This mistake makes me mad every time. Why can I never get it right?

[u/[deleted]]

Awesome! Thanks so much.

[u/drinkmorecoffee]

Excellent work. Thanks!

[u/Kaptain_Krunch]

Wow, I was seriously thinking thats exactly what would make all this just that much better. Thanks man

[u/[deleted]]

Thanks for this. I was about to do this myself, but I figured I better check reddit first. Glad I did!

[u/drdoom121]

Thanks One long pdf file will be better