Why do programming books always have pictures of animals on them?
Seriously, I can't figure it out....
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O'Reilly in particular puts animal pictures on their covers. Usually, the animal has some symbolic relation to the subject, but not always. There's some explanation at this post:
http://www.deadprogrammer.com/oreilly-book-covers
I believe many the pictures are taken from the same collection. I've seen some of them in old royalty-free stock books.
Jason S
2009-08-28 01:25:10
The O'reilly book for learning python has a mouse on it..... :D
CrazyJugglerDrummer
2009-08-28 01:32:05
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i think that's just the O'Reilly publishing company. i have no idea why they put animals on the covers, but a former professeor of mine said they make good books. there are other books from other publishing companies that don't have animals on the covers such as Sans
anonymous
2009-08-28 01:26:00
Technically, both wizards and dragons could be considered animals. :-p You're right about TAOCP, though.
las3rjock
2009-08-28 01:49:15
Well, SICP is the "wizard book", and CPTT is the "dragon book", so I just focused on those. You're right about the knight on the dragon book, though.
las3rjock
2009-08-29 00:15:03
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After this someone has to ask question why programming books have pictures of sliced fruit on them.
etc
ttvd
2009-08-28 01:28:06
... except I've never heard of an apple reproducing and making different types of fruit.
Matthew Iselin
2009-08-28 01:32:20
Matthew, that makes sense. But it still doesn't explain why they are sliced :)
ttvd
2009-08-28 01:40:16