Hi Nick,

As Alberto mentioned, there is a current, very active effort going on at:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-devel-docs/tree/platform-demos/C.<http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-devel-docs/tree/platform-demos/C>

The most active section is the creation of "Beginner Tutorials" in C, Vala,
Python and JavaScript.  The Gnome Outreach programme has 3 interns plus
myself  currently dedicated to the effort.

I am familiar with Foundations of Gtk+, and have also wished it be updated
:-)

The "Beginner Tutorials" are also including GtkApplicationWindow and the
app menu technologies.

We did the second release of this effort just this week:

Vala:
http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/unstable/beginner.vala.html.en

Python:
http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/unstable/beginner.py.html.en

JavaScript:
http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/unstable/beginner.js.html.en

C: http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/unstable/beginner.c.html.en

Since the release,  more sample code has already been added to the repo.
We are hoping to make a release every two weeks, so I welcome you to check
in on the progress.

Additionally, in August we are planning a hackfest at the OpenHelp
Conference, which will focus on the Beginner Tutorials, as well as other
Platform Tutorials.

We are hoping to have a complete set of tutorials including up-to-date
technologies ready for all 4 programming languages mentioned by the end of
the summer.

Hope this information helps,

Tiffany

On 2 June 2012 15:15, Alberto Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Nick,
>
> Actually, there's a lot of sample code being written for the GNOME
> Developer Docs:
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-devel-docs/tree/platform-demos/C
>
> You should start cherry picking those suitable for learn-x-the-hard-way
> and start a repo!
>
> 2012/6/2 Nick Glynn <[email protected]>
>
>> Hey list,
>>
>> Are there any efforts to develop a new Gtk/Gnome Development book as I
>> think the most recent was Foundations of Gtk Development which was 2007 and
>> a fair bit has changed since then.
>>
>> I appreciate there's a lot better documentation/tutorials on *.gnome.org
>> these days but wondered if something akin to Zed Shaws Learn X The Hard Way
>> is in the works such that it can be contributed to by the community as well
>> as those in the know and kept up to date much easier than a traditional
>> book.
>>
>> For those unfamiliar with the concept you can see the outline repo here
>> https://gitorious.org/learn-x-the-hard-way/learn-x-the-hard-way and more
>> examples of the type of documentation can be seen at
>> http://www.learncodethehardway.com/
>>
>> I've had a look and couldn't find anything in progress but Google doesn't
>> seem to index github/gitorious projects all that well.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
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