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in thread The view from Barnes & Noble

Each store/chain is free to do what they like, but most books now come from the publisher with a "default" section designation, typically printed on the upper left corner of the back cover.

It isn't a cure-all, however, as some books have multiple suggestions — for example, Effective Java⇒ has:
Java/Internet Programming/Programming Languages.

Between the mind which plans and the hands which build, there must be a mediator... and this mediator must be the heart.

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Re^3: The view from Barnes & Noble
by jvector (Friar) on Oct 11, 2008 at 12:30 UTC
    I love it that in U.K public libraries they used to (and still do, in fact) organise their shelves by the Dewey Decimal system , which put subjects in this order:
    # 000 – Computer science, information, and general works
# 100 – Philosophy and psychology
# 200 – Religion
# 300 – Social sciences
# 400 – Languages
# 500 – Science and Mathematics
# 600 – Technology and applied science
# 700 – Arts and recreation
# 800 – Literature
# 900 – History and geography and biography,

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    and the 100's always seemed to attract the rather far out and wacky end of the spectrum.

    I always thought it entertaining that books on programming ended up sharing a shelf with Erich_von_Daniken ;-)

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