Yeah, I got the same email. I believe the strategy for some of these books is just to mass email a bunch of github users who have julia code in their repos.
The outline looks interesting, but a little dated; which is to be expected with Julia moving so fast. For one thing, they mention having a section on Julia Studio, which, last I heard, is no longer maintained and pretty out of date itself at this point. Anyway, I told them I'd help review; but if you don't feel comfortable, I wouldn't worry about it. I'm sure there's a dozen others they contacted :) -Jacob On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Wilfred Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > I received an email today about being a technical reviewer for a book on > Julia! > > We're currently developing a book titled *Mastering Julia* aiming at >> building statistical models with linear regressions and analysis of >> variance (ANOVA) and will be working on probability, probability >> distributions, and random variables covering data structures such as >> matrices, lists, factors, and data frames. This book is targeted at >> Intermediate >> level developer in statistical languages and one who will be having >> understanding of Core elements and applications. >> >> Would you be interested in acting as reviewer for this book? >> > Now, I enjoy Julia, and I'm happy to help promote the language, but I > don't think I'm particularly qualified to be a technical reviewer of a book > on Julia programming. I found this thread on julia-dev: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/julia-dev/HrdpknFgdfk/SAVMyyacT_sJ > where Packt contacted a large number of folks seeking an author. > > Has anyone else received something like this? In principle, I'm all in > favour of producing promotional or teaching materials, but I'm surprised it > lead to me being contacted. >
