On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, ukimiku wrote: > Tobias, > > congratulations! > > I read on the Gambas-Buch page that you are co-author of a book on Gambas > programming. I tried to locate it at Amazon, but no luck. Where is it > available? Does it cover Gambas 3? >
Good to hear that someone's interested in it! If you don't mind, I'd like to tell you the story because it contains an anecdote relevant to the original topic (of Gambas apparently not being a widely-used language - at least not as widely as I think is just)... Hans (the other author and my former computer science teacher) once contacted a publisher about the book when he wanted to start writing it. (Hans was alone at that time with his plans since I was 16 or so and not capable of writing a book - not that I really am now, two years later :-)) Anyways, the publisher said it would not sell because there weren't "more than a dozen" German-speaking Gambas programmers around who would buy the book... Sounds like the story gets a twist here, right? No, it doesn't :-) When school became more relaxed for me towards the A-level, we simply started to publish the book online, at http://gambas-buch.de. The obvious benefit of putting the book online is that we can target the latest (stable) Gambas releases - which is what we do, so yes, it is about Gambas 3(.5.1). Maybe we will also have a printed version in the future but not until most chapters are written. Regards, Tobi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
