From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: ANNOUNCE: low-cost non-profit CD
Date: 4 Nov 1998 15:16:24 GMT

BURKS (the Brighton University Resource Kit for Students) is a non-profit
set of 2 CDs available from the University of Brighton (UK) or the George
Washington University (USA), price UKP 5.00 / US $8.50 (plus shipping).
Now in its third year, the current (3rd) edition has kindly been sponsored
by GEC-Marconi and ROCC Computers.

Aimed at Computer Science students, it provides around 1.1Gb of material
including compilers, tutorials and reference material for over 20 programming
languages; a copy of the Free Online Dictionary of Computing with over 11,000
definitions; a Linux distribution, together with a set of Linux manuals; FAQs,
tutorials and specifications for Internet and PC related topics (e.g. HTML,
FTP, XMS, Winsock, storage devices, modems...), and a large selection of
MS-DOS and Windows software.

Python-related material includes the DOS and Windows implementations, WPY,
the Python Tutorial, Reference Manual, Library Reference, API Reference,
FAQs, and selected libraries.

The entire collection is available online at http://burks.bton.ac.uk/.
Python-related material is at http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/python/.
Ordering information (including shipping costs to various destinations)
is also available online (at http://burks.bton.ac.uk/ordering.htm).

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 Dept. of Computing        | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS **
 University of Brighton    |    -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk
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