From kde-core-devel  Mon Nov 15 11:43:36 2004
From: Brad Hards <bradh () frogmouth ! net>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:43:36 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE 4 Development book
Message-Id: <200411152243.48297.bradh () frogmouth ! net>
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 19:23 pm, Frerich Raabe wrote:
> So, any input on this? What topics should be covered? Who wants to
> contribute? How does the whole book-writing business work anyway (maybe
> some of the folks who contributes to the andamooka(sp?) book can say
> something)?
I think it is wrong to think of a book. What do we want the book to do? I=20
think the goal that people have in mind is that it makes it easier to learn=
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things, especially for new hackers. We already have the Doxygen based=20
reference, so I don't think there is much more required for that.

If this is the case, perhaps we should be trying to develop an education=20
system (for example, something based on Moodle (see Linux Journal Dec 2004 =
or=20
http://www.moodle.org for an example), so we try to write tutorials as the=
=20
base material for courses, but don't worry about trying to write a complete=
=20
"book" (even though they might look a lot like chapters of a textbook). Eve=
n=20
a few courses would help enormously. Of course, we'd need instructors as=20
well, but that would probably happen for a book in any case (albeit to a=20
lesser degree).

Brad

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