Folks, after a lot of thinking back and forth I finally decided that the world needs another book about WebObjects. And for this I need your input/feedback. But first let me give some background on why I would do this....
I am a part time teacher and author of course books besides doing project work for customers. Just recently I have finished a course book about SSAD (yes, that old stuff that still has some importance) and am currently redoing a course book "Intro to OO Programming with Java". The courses I teach are part of the formal training to become an application developer with an official diploma. This apprenticeship lasts two resp. four years and consists of 30+ modules plus an internship. I teach many of those modules and I can offer sometimes (as time permits) one of my student in internship in my company. Last year I had the opportunity to do a module "OO-Multiuser Application with Relational Database". The topics are given by Swiss Federal regulations but the teacher/school is free to use whatever tools and environments they want. I decided to use WebObjects and particularly EOF (object relational mapping is a big part of this module). Somewhere in the basement I found a set of the old Programming WebObjects 1 course book by Apple from around 2001. The students liked what they learned (albeit some had problems with course material in English) and I started to think that we ought to have something like that old PWO stuff but based on the modern tools. That same course will be run again beginning of next year and I hope I will be assigned that course again (there is quite a chance to that). But we would have to have a proper course book in German. I intend to formalise this course and write the course book introducing WO. The book will be in a style that encourages reading (readable almost like a novel). It can be used as a course book in formal training but it will be written in such a way that it is suitable (and preferable) for self-teaching. Of course the book has to be done in German but I think I can do an English version in parallel. There are some specific requirements for the topics covered in that particular module. These could be left out in the English version but I think the two versions will share more than 80 percent of the content. Planned time frame is Q4/2012. The book will probably be available as an e-book. Maybe a print version is doable. The German version will be in print (but that will be the school's thing do do). I intend to follow loosely along the lines of the original Apple PWO 1 course. Here I have some requests to you folks out there: It is clear that all the tool specific things must be redone. What else would you consider to be important? WOnder? Probably, but how far should I go there? The book is clearly for the beginner, so I do not want to go into too much detail (hey there was a PWO 2 course once, there could be a followup book eventually...). E.g. as great as (ER)D2W is this should not be part of that book, neither should be REST, Ajax etc. I really want to stick to the original topics and adapt those to the modern world. I will include a chapter about setting up the development environment for both Mac OS X and Windows (I know the license states that one must not develop on non-Apple HW but the license does not state that one must learn on Apple HW only!) and a bit about deployment. Please let your suggestions and ideas come up. Either post here as replies or mail them directly to me. Thanks for your help, see you (at least some of you) in Montréal ---markus--- _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
