Two great bundles at HumbleBundle.com currently
14Hi, just wanted to let my fellow Mehricans know about two really awesome bundles happening now at HumbleBundle.com.
Both are pay-what-you-want, with different tiers of products available to you depending on how much you pay, and also help a variety of charities.
One is the Joy of Coding bundle.
The other is Humble Indie Bundle 17.
The first one is the Joy of Coding bundle in partnership with No Starch Press, whose books make up the bundle.
Folks, if you have any interest in programming, or would like to learn some new languages, get this bundle- normally, you can’t even get one of these ebooks for the price you can get all of these at.
Here’s the list:
Pay $1 or more for Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, The Linux Command Line, Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!, Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!, and The Book of F#.
Pay $8 or more and you’ll also receive Eloquent JavaScript, 2nd Edition; The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript; Land of Lisp; Realm of Racket; If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript; and Write Great Code, Volume 1.
Pay $15 or more to receive all of that plus Python Playground, Think Like a Programmer, The Art of R Programming, Clojure for the Brave and True, and Write Great Code, Volume 2.
The second bundle is Humble Indie Bundle 17.
This features a collection of indie games that are available on PC, Mac, and Linux, with Steam keys & DRM free downloads.
Here’s the title list:
Pay what you want for Lethal League, The Beginner’s Guide, and Galak-Z.
Pay $1 or more to receive a coupon for 10% off Humble Monthly for new subscribers.
Pay more than the average price and you’ll also get Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime, Octodad: Dadliest Catch, and SUPER TIME FORCE ULTRA.
Pay $10 or more for all of that plus Nuclear Throne.
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Tyvm!!
/giphy tyvm
I highly recommend the joy of coding bundle, no starch books are always approachable & informative. My only problem with the bundle is you don’t get any paper books (I have a full bookshelf of no starch books at home)
@dashcloud @MrGlass, so the Joy of Coding bundle would be good for a complete newbie?
@mehbee The books are aimed at different levels, but they are still all approachable. It looks like most of the ones in this bundle are aimed at people with a small amount of coding experience, though there are some noob (and teenager) books in it.
@mehbee Yes- obviously not every book is going to be useful for you yet- Automate the Boring Stuff is definitely for anyone.
@mehbee i just took my first python programming class and we used automate the boring stuff instead of a textbook. very easy to learn from. python is a very friendly language for beginners too
@MrGlass Teenager level? Boom I’m in! I think that bundle will work for me. I just want to see if I really do have a interest, and any sort of talent for coding.
@Pantheist Well maybe I could get both? Then I’m covered. Thanks so much for the heads up and the advice from both of you.
@mehbee Are you my son? I was thinking this would be perfect for him, as he’s a teenager who thinks he wants to learn, but hasn’t had much of a chance yet.
@pitamuffin I had to read this twice and and finish laughing before I responded. No I am definitely not a teenaged boy, but I agree that this would probably be great for him.
I’m not a programmer but decided I would like to try to learn. I’m all about automating the boring stuff so that sold me. And then I did my first Arduino project this week (rotary phone with sound module) and was quite pleased with how it came out. So I’m in for a stack of ebooks that I hope I’ll get something out of. Thanks @dashcloud!
Thanks for the heads-up; I bought the bookset.
I’m not really at all interested, in any of the listed items, BUT I want to thank you anyway for bringing the HumbleBundle web site to my consciousness, because any site that would offer the stated bundles at the given terms, is very likely to have stuff I do want a bundle of eventually.
So THANKS!!
Thomas
Thank you, I purchased too. Having issues with email server, so I was not able to respond to your email. Think godaddy is experiencing hiccups!!
HumbleBundle now has a GameMaker bundle. Any thoughts from people who understand this kind of stuff (definitely not me, but I have a kid who is interested in learning)?
@pitamuffin I’m a dev but I’ve never worked on games. From what I could tell it seems like it would be good for someone with some knowledge looking to grow, but not for a beginner.
@pitamuffin How old is your kid? I generally recommend no starch books. They have actually had a few humble bundles over the past year.
@MrGlass He’s a teenager. I think I might just go ahead and get it and see if he finds it useful. What the heck, right?
@pitamuffin Yeah, at that price its hard to argue.
@pitamuffin Here’s a site that helps you figure out what tools would be good for you based on your experience and interests: http://www.sortingh.at/
(If you just want a giant pile of tools and sites, go here: http://www.pixelprospector.com/game-development/)
No mention of the awesome Sierra bundle? These games defined some of my childhood! (and computer interest - it took an advanced degree to get some of these games to run right sometimes, especially the later Quest games.)
3 days left:
https://www.humblebundle.com/sierra-bundle
@SirLouie honestly the Sierra bundle doesn’t excite me much. Most of the Sierra games I best remember aren’t there.
@jbartus Aww, I loved the Space Quest, Police Quest, and Quest for Glory games. Phantasmagoria was interesting for its time, too, with its integration of full motion video into computer-rendered gameplay.
I remember playing that game, and thinking “Geez, what are people talking about, this game isn’t all that gory. It’s a little creepy, but nothing disturbing ever actually happens.”
And then I got to the last level, the seventh CD-ROM, and as I made a bad choice, I watched a demon grab my character’s head and crack it open like a fleshy egg. I grabbed my ankles and rocked in the corner of my room for like an hour. I still remember that scene 20 years later.
Here be spoilers, if you want to check it out:
@jbartus What were some of your favorite Sierra games?
@SirLouie that was highly NSFW
I played a lot of their city builder games when I was a kid so the Caesar games somewhat appeal to me in that bundle, I also played Pharaoh, Cleopatra, Zeus and Emperor.
One of my favorite childhood games they published was Sid & Al’s Incredible Toons, it was basically a cartoon take on The Incredible Machine but added a lot of humor due to the cartoon nature. Speaking of which The Incredible Machine games were a great deal of fun themselves.
Homeworld is a favorite that doubtless needs no introduction and it would have been nice to see the originals, if not the HD remake, in the $20 level offering.
Starsiege was a great game as was its predecessor Metaltech Earthsiege, I’m actually really disappointed the fan-developed sequel fell apart and all we’re left with in the modern era is the Tribes spinoff series.
Other titles included Empire Earth, the Spyro and Crash Bandicoot series though as console only titles I can understand their absence. Leisure Suit Larry is another series I am surprised not to see make a showing. I suspect that the real issue is that most of the ‘Sierra Library’ are games developed by other companies that Sierra published and have since had the publishing rights lapse.
@jbartus Sorry about the NSFW - I thought that me describing the scene before the clip along with my thumb-sucking reaction was enough of a warning.
Keep an eye on the Humble Bundle site - maybe some of the titles you love will make it into a bundle someday!
@SirLouie no worries. FWIW I weathered it fine, and I was at work only in the sense that I work from home. That said I didn’t quite realize that was the exact clip you were showing.
Don’t you just love seeing how crappy the green-screen mixed Live Action + CG Scene cinematics look now that we’re used to so much better?