[Gambas-user] Re: Gambas Documentation

Robert G. Cook rgcook at ...595...
Sun Aug 29 21:51:36 CEST 2004


On Sunday 29 August 2004 01:22 pm, Rob wrote:
> On Sunday 29 August 2004 14:12, Marcelo Duschkin wrote:
> > El Dom 29 Ago 2004 14:41, Rob escribió:
> > |> I have started writing a "Gambas for Penguins" book for
> > |> newbies and VB users a couple times (work always gets me
> >
> > Can I help you in this job?
> > I can do it in English and Spanish.
>
> That would be wonderful.  I'll try to put together an outline we
> (and anyone else who can help) can work from, and I'll put it on
> the wiki.
>
> What I've got in mind is somewhere between "Grokking the Gimp"
> and "VB for Dummies(tm)", in terms of tone and audience.  I was
> originally hoping that I could write the whole thing myself so
> Binara would have its name on something concrete (and to make it
> less of a hassle to get printed) but as with the documentation,
> I'm sure it will work better with many people putting their
> heads together.
>
> I would like for it to be available in printed form somehow (I
> know MANY programmers who need some kind of printed reference to
> feel comfortable), and I think we should work out some
> arrangement such that anyone who contributes can get it
> published in his own country, or something like that.  It's not
> that I really want to make money off of it, but that I dearly
> wish to walk into Barnes and Noble someday and see a Gambas book
> among the wasteland of VB ;)
>
> Rob
>
>
>
>
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Count me in the list of those who need/want a printed manual. I do not know VB 
6 but I have been working on VB.NET for the last two years. It is not my core 
job, more for fun. I am reading the documentation that comes with Gamba and 
find it to be very good. But in doing this, I am kind of skimming things in 
no structured manner. I need structure:-) A book does that.

Please let me know how I can help you in your endeavor to write a Gambas book! 
Also keep me posted on your efforts to convert the help files into OO. I was 
going to import the whole wiki and format it myself but if you have a better 
way...

Bob




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