With so much being done with electronic books these days, i would thing there could be a system where individual chapters could be kept reasonably up to date. But i also find a printed book to be really nice and i often prefer it.
The advantage of a book rather than docs of commands is that you get more on various approaches to problems. Often i simply don't know the command to use, to get a specific job done. At first, project organization was a big challenge, then I found an approach and am still refining it. Making readable code is another challenge. The online tutorials made by the Livecode team are useful but often don't go far enough. There are many gems posted on this list. I wonder if somebody mined some of the best ones, categorized and posted them, and invited their authors to edit them, would be useful. Kind of like an open source book. The livecode Creat-IT course may ultimately be a valuable resource. There's an amazing amount of great info in it. At this point it needs a LOT of exiting to achieve its potential. Whatever is done, it will need to be extensible to accommodate the rapid evolution of livecode Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Apr 21, 2015, at 8:26 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> > wrote: > > jbv wro > > > Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > >> Very hard to find a publisher who will pay an advance with no > >> opportunity for a return on that investment. :) > > > > crowdfunding ? > > I've considered that, but most crowdfunding sites require putting together so > much media (video presentation, product and offer details, etc.) that I could > write half the book in as much time as it would take to prep a Kickstarter > campaign. > > So instead I'm inclined at the moment to use crowdfunding in reverse: foot > the up-front costs myself, and allow people to donate once they receive it > and can evaluate what they feel its value is. > > I may use one of the crowdfunding sites for larger things down the road, > though. > > And then again, if a man can pull in $55,492 for a crowdfunded potato salad > maybe I'm overthinking this and should just dive in. :) > > <http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/my-money/2014/08/13/8-crazy-kickstarter-campaigns-that-actually-got-funded> > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
