Hello, I had an idea back one or two years ago about writing an "absolute beginner to programming" book which uses GNU Smalltalk as the tool to teach programming. And I have done a lot of work on it but after my lessons got a little harder at university now I cannot find time to finish it. Instead of leaving it decay on one of my folders I decided to post about it and maybe find other volunteers to complete the book. You can get the draft pdf at:
http://www.canol.info/smalltalk/gnu_smalltalk_book.pdf It is about 95 pages long. Although maybe 80% of the content is completed there are also a lot of content to be written. I have annotated the missing parts via triple brackets for example: [[[Write here the reason of the output]]] Some points worth mentioning: - I have written the book in OpenOffice.Org but have a positive look for a rewrite in LaTeX, DocBook or something other but please keep the look of the current draft as much as possible cause I give importance about the look and typography. - I also give importance about what subjects to mention and in what order but we can discuss about it later if there are volunteers :) - I don't know much about licensing, we might need a person who has knowledge about the subject. I think such a book can make GST get attention by a lot of newcomers. Also we can make it available at Lulu and donate the income to GNU (or GNU Smalltalk directly?) to help the development. Are there any volunteers to continue the effort? _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
