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This category contains articles about "how-to" books, instruction manuals, and guides to other practical topics. See Category:Self-help books for books on popular psychology and self-improvement. Contents
Notable For Dummies books include: DOS For Dummies, the first, published in 1991, whose first printing was just 7,500 copies [4] [5] Windows for Dummies, asserted to be the best-selling computer book of all time, with more than 15 million sold [4] L'Histoire de France Pour Les Nuls, the top-selling non-English For Dummies title, with more than ...
Dan Gookin is a computer book author who wrote the first ...For Dummies books including DOS for Dummies and PCs for Dummies, establishing the design and voice of the long-running series that followed, incorporating humor and jokes into a format for beginners on any subject. He also is a member of the Coeur d'Alene City Council.
series) is a product line of how-to and other reference books published by Dorling Kindersley (DK). The books in this series provide a basic understanding of a complex and popular topics. The term "idiot" is used as hyperbole, to reassure readers that the guides will be basic and comprehensible, even if the topics seem intimidating.
I believe the For Dummy books are supposed to be simplified versions of instruction manuals seeing how a for dummy books has short paragraphs unlike ones found in an instruction manual. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.138.112.104 ( talk ) 21:50, 6 November 2010 (UTC) [ reply ]
Sams Publishing was founded in 1946 by Howard W. Sams, originally producing radio schematics and repair manuals. It was acquired by ITT in 1967. ITT sold its publishing division in 1985 to Macmillan. In 1987, Sams was split into three divisions with the computer book division transferred to what later became Macmillan Computer Publishing. [1]
Plex Inc. is an American software company that runs its namesake over-the-top ad-supported streaming television service, and allows discussion and discovery of ...
Although initially the manuals were covered by the GFDL, the material was relicensed to the GPL due to concerns about the limitations of the GFDL. [1] Anyone can contribute to the material at FLOSS Manuals. Each manual has a maintainer – very much like the Debian maintainer system. The maintainer keeps an overview of the manual and discusses ...