I agree with Tim. Open source book writing would be especially useful because scripters using a particular OS could take the result posted by one OS user and write the corrections/additions for another. In that way, 3 (4? 5?), OS-specific but otherwise identical books would be available without all OS-specific stuff for an OS a scripter is not using or doesn't care about. However, in addition to solutions, I think anyone could and should take a shot at writing sections of text, not just code.
On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 10:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The fastest way to get such a book would be for members of this list to > submit their solutions to various challenges to an editor(s). If > someone with > good writing skills could volunteer to be the editor, that would be > great. > > Another way might be to "write the book" through this list. Many of us > would > have to do a little work, but that might be more practical than one of > us > trying to find the time to do a lot of work. To begin, we'd have to > come up > with a list of chapters; there was a good start in an earlier post. > Then, > people who "know the answers" could post their solutions. One of the > people > who understands the content and can write fairly well would have to > volunteer > to consolidate the solutions into a chapter. They could then post the > chapter > for review by the members of the list. If this is deemed an > inappropriate use > of the list, most of the work could be shifted off list. Think of it > as open > source book writing. > > Tim Bleiler > University at Buffalo > -- John R. Vokey, Ph.D. |\ _,,,---,,_ Professor /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' University of Lethbridge '---''(_/--' `-'\_) _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard