I would certainly be up for contributing something here, but I don't think the cookbook style is the best vehicle. I think they are great for focused "how do I do X" questions, but (for me at least) getting om was a big mental shift/paradigm shift. That is best navigated through a long hand-holding narrative for example, which is best suited to a traditional book. I want(ed) something to browse through in the evening that explained the rationale, the mental model etc. For sure, then/now I wanted a whole bunch of recipes :).
I know others here have used https://leanpub.com/ for example, any comments? On Thursday, 6 November 2014 13:56:16 UTC, Sean Johnson wrote: > > Another question of idiomatic usage (will somebody *please* right a > > "JoyOfClojure" type book about om ;)). > > ...snip... > > > (Has anyone thought of writing a book on this stuff? I can't be the only > > person who has been doing this a while and been completely blown out of the > > water by the whole "treat the dom like a projection/state-machine/pure > > function" mind set?) > > It's an interesting question. If someone is working on a "Joy of Om", please > let the list know! If such a book existed, I'd certainly buy it! I'm not the > guy to write a "Joy of Clojure"[0] style treatise on Om though, I couldn't > swing the time commitment there. > > I'm interested though in what everyone think about the recent "Clojure > Cookbook"[1] release? It was crowd-sourced[2] from the Clojure community and > edited/enhanced/supplemented by the authors. > > Do you like the outcome? Do you think it's a good book? Did you participate > in the process (contributing a recipe or commenting on them)? Did you like > the process? > > An open/free "Om Cookbook" (hopefully picked up by a publisher for the dead > tree crowd) is both the kind of effort I personally have time for, and it > lends itself to my strengths (clear explanation, organization, herding cats). > > Cheers, > Sean > > [0] http://joyofclojure.com/ > [1] http://clojure-cookbook.com > [2] https://github.com/clojure-cookbook/clojure-cookbook -- Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ClojureScript" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
