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+About | +Participants | +Publication | +Suggestions | +Format | +Contents +
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About the wxWindows book

+ +Discussions have been taking place on the wxwin-developers list about +collaboratively writing a wxWindows book. The concensus is to write a tutorial +book for people with reasonable C++ experience, with the possibility of including the API reference either in a very compact +form at the back of the book, or as a separate volume. The book would almost certainly +contain a CD-ROM with wxWindows and its documentation. It would probably be available +for free on-line, publisher permitting.

+ +Goals for the book:

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  1. to allow users to become accomplished wxWindows developers rapidly; +
  2. to be useful over a longer period than just the first few weeks, since +there are a lot of complex areas to address and not all features will be +used up-front in a project; +
  3. to promote wxWindows to a wider audience; +
  4. to make at least some money for the authors. +
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+ +Audience: beginners + experienced wxWindows users, but with reasonable C++ +knowledge.

+ +It is suggested that any financial return from the book be allocated on a points system, +with a predefined number of points for chapters, indexing, editing, proof-reading etc.

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+ +

Participants

+ +So far, the following people are interested in taking part in this project:

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Publication

+ +Tom Ryan originally wrote:

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+Hi Guys,
+
+I just wanted to let you know that I have spoken with officials here 
+at California State University, Chico and they are potentially 
+interested in publishing a book on wxWindows!  A wxWindows 
+book would give wxWindows a great deal of exposure.
+
+These discussions came out of the fact that CSUC wanted to 
+switch from MFC to wxWindows in their GUI programming classes, 
+but there was not a book available for students to work with. 
+
+I was thinking that the first edition could be primarily the reference 
+documentation combined with a basic wxTutorial and examples. In 
+this case, it would be fairly straightforward to get something out 
+initially and then we could take it from there.
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+ +

+ +Ben Allfree has also expressed an interest +in publishing a wxWindows book, and distributing it via Amazon. Ben was thinking +in terms of a quickie job using the existing reference manual.

+ +Another publishing name to think of is O'Reilly. They would probably give us a lot +of guidance for style, formatting, etc.

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Suggestions and comments

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Text format

+ +This depends partly on the publisher, but one possibility is to target Word but have +submissions in a number of formats including Latex. We should eventually write a style +and formatting guide.

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+ +

Contents

+ +This is open to suggestion.

+ +Last year, Mike Lorenz of VisionX +suggested this +tutorial outline, which could +be a good starting point.

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