Thanks to all who responded here and by private mail. You all have provided interesting input on all aspects of such a task. Please forgive me that I have not yet responded to each of you personally. I am sure there will be interesting discussions @WOWDC about the future of WO and how we can promote WO. I am looking forward do meeting you in person and talk things through.
See you there, in the meantime have fun ---markus--- On 08.06.2012, at 14:48, Markus Ruggiero wrote: > Folks, > > after a lot of thinking back and forth I finally decided that the world needs > another book about WebObjects. And for this I need your input/feedback. But > first let me give some background on why I would do this.... > > I am a part time teacher and author of course books besides doing project > work for customers. Just recently I have finished a course book about SSAD > (yes, that old stuff that still has some importance) and am currently redoing > a course book "Intro to OO Programming with Java". The courses I teach are > part of the formal training to become an application developer with an > official diploma. This apprenticeship lasts two resp. four years and consists > of 30+ modules plus an internship. I teach many of those modules and I can > offer sometimes (as time permits) one of my student in internship in my > company. > Last year I had the opportunity to do a module "OO-Multiuser Application with > Relational Database". The topics are given by Swiss Federal regulations but > the teacher/school is free to use whatever tools and environments they want. > I decided to use WebObjects and particularly EOF (object relational mapping > is a big part of this module). Somewhere in the basement I found a set of the > old Programming WebObjects 1 course book by Apple from around 2001. The > students liked what they learned (albeit some had problems with course > material in English) and I started to think that we ought to have something > like that old PWO stuff but based on the modern tools. That same course will > be run again beginning of next year and I hope I will be assigned that course > again (there is quite a chance to that). But we would have to have a proper > course book in German. I intend to formalise this course and write the course > book introducing WO. The book will be in a style that encourages reading > (readable almost like a novel). It can be used as a course book in formal > training but it will be written in such a way that it is suitable (and > preferable) for self-teaching. Of course the book has to be done in German > but I think I can do an English version in parallel. There are some specific > requirements for the topics covered in that particular module. These could be > left out in the English version but I think the two versions will share more > than 80 percent of the content. > > Planned time frame is Q4/2012. The book will probably be available as an > e-book. Maybe a print version is doable. The German version will be in print > (but that will be the school's thing do do). > > I intend to follow loosely along the lines of the original Apple PWO 1 > course. Here I have some requests to you folks out there: It is clear that > all the tool specific things must be redone. What else would you consider to > be important? WOnder? Probably, but how far should I go there? The book is > clearly for the beginner, so I do not want to go into too much detail (hey > there was a PWO 2 course once, there could be a followup book eventually...). > E.g. as great as (ER)D2W is this should not be part of that book, neither > should be REST, Ajax etc. I really want to stick to the original topics and > adapt those to the modern world. I will include a chapter about setting up > the development environment for both Mac OS X and Windows (I know the license > states that one must not develop on non-Apple HW but the license does not > state that one must learn on Apple HW only!) and a bit about deployment. > > Please let your suggestions and ideas come up. Either post here as replies or > mail them directly to me. > > Thanks for your help, see you (at least some of you) in Montréal > > ---markus--- > _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
