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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 7:09 pm
by Straker
Wow! Hijacked on the 2nd reply. Nice one Kale.
@Intrigued: did you start this poll because you were considering writing a book? I ask because of the discussion last night. If so, would you still do it considering Kale is already writing a book?
I would buy if I felt the programming techniques were something that would enhance my coding style. PureBasic is flexible enough that people have many different coding styles. So covering the basics is easy, teaching a coding style depends on the teacher.
@Kale: It appears that your book is Windows only, or does it cover the other OSes? Where is the OOP chapter?
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:51 pm
by Intrigued
Straker wrote:Wow! Hijacked on the 2nd reply. Nice one Kale.
@Intrigued: did you start this poll because you were considering writing a book? I ask because of the discussion last night. If so, would you still do it considering Kale is already writing a book?
I would buy if I felt the programming techniques were something that would enhance my coding style. PureBasic is flexible enough that people have many different coding styles. So covering the basics is easy, teaching a coding style depends on the teacher.
@Kale: It appears that your book is Windows only, or does it cover the other OSes? Where is the OOP chapter?
No, no. I am very new to PB. I started the poll just to see how folks would buy a PB 4 book and to see what responses would come back from such a poll, like who may be already writing a book.
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:53 pm
by thefool
Blueznl almost wrote a book
Check his survival guide while waiting for kale!
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:16 pm
by Kale
Straker wrote:Wow! Hijacked on the 2nd reply. Nice one Kale.@Kale: It appears that your book is Windows only, or does it cover the other OSes? Where is the OOP chapter?
No, the only Windows only part of the book is the section on the WinAPI later on. I've tried to keep it as cross platform as possible. Also there is no OOP section because PB is a procedural language not an OOP language.
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:18 pm
by thefool
where are the chapter sneak-peak... i cant see it!
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:18 pm
by Intrigued
Kale wrote:Straker wrote:Wow! Hijacked on the 2nd reply. Nice one Kale.@Kale: It appears that your book is Windows only, or does it cover the other OSes? Where is the OOP chapter?
No, the only Windows only part of the book is the section on the WinAPI later on. I've tried to keep it as cross platform as possible. Also there is no OOP section because PB is a procedural language not an OOP language.
I'm glad to hear both points made. I forgot to ask about cross-platform (with no code changes at all?) and OOP ... glad to hear no focus on trying to make PB OOP centric.
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