[haXe] haxe Book Update

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"The perfect haXe book, in my opinion, would be one that assumes you
already know programming"

Completely agree on this one. Maybe you just need to highlight fancy
or haXe specific features of the language.

"And please, oh please, don't neglect us Mac users"

And please, oh, please don't neglect Linux users either :D. One of the
most difficult things I've found when switching to Linux is that many,
many posts and tutos assume that, for the simple fact that you're
using Linux, you're a super-super-user. This was probably true some
years ago before Ubuntu and other user-friendly distros, but these
days there're a bunch of Linux users with slightly less technical
skills. Ummm... sorry for th OT!

Could anyone please post a link to the original TOC of the book?

Thanks!

Juan

On 4/9/07, Dru Kepple <drukepple at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd second the whole coming-from-Flash/ActionScript thing.  I think
> any comparisons you could make with Flash/AS would be understood;
> seems like a lot of us are Flash users at heart.
>
> The perfect haXe book, in my opinion, would be one that assumes you
> already know programming, and probably assumes you already know how to
> write ActionScript and work with Flash, and therefore doesn't spend
> half the book teaching you things like variables, loops, functions,
> etc.  My ideal would be "haXe and Neko for the Flash developer."  But
> I'm pretty much already going to buy this book no matter what.  I'm
> just hoping you can save me some time by delegating the Programming
> Concepts to another book or something.
>
> And please, oh please, don't neglect us Mac users.  Far, far too often
> books give extremely detailed instructions on how to do something on
> Windows and then mention a cursory paragraph on the Macintosh, as an
> after thought.  Of course, the programming side of things would be
> largely platform independent, but installation instructions are,
> naturally, different.
>
> I remember reading a PHP book from Wrox, and there was an entire
> chapter on installation, and it had detailed steps for installing PHP
> on DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME,
> Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Longhorn, Windows 2010, and Windows
> 2019 (an exaggeration for effect).  And then at the very end of the
> chapter, it had a heading for Macintosh installation, and there was a
> single paragraph that pretty much said, "And, you can install it on
> the Mac too.  Good luck with that."
>
> And all too often an instruction is given to "Right-click
> (command-click on the Mac)" which would be useful if it were accurate.
>  It's "control-click."
>
> OK, I've ranted on about Mac-neglect too long.  Sorry about that.  Is
> there any way to be notified of the books release?  I don't always
> follow these mailing list threads very closely and an email
> notification would be helpful.
>
> Thanks,
> Dru
>
>
> On 4/8/07, Franco Ponticelli <franco.ponticelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/8/07, bbsound <bbsound2002 at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> > > 1 - I 'd suggest a chapter on brain watching former AS scripters (those
> > > who started programing with flash... like me...) highlighting all/some
> > > of the bad habits of the AS1&2 way of programing comparing to how it may
> > > be achieved with haXe with better style.
> >
> > Annotated.
> >
> > > 2 - Cookbook style one are my favorites small, concise, precise chapters
> >
> > The Wrox professional series is not really cookbook style, but I'll try to
> > give as much code samples as possible.
> >
> > > 3 - Go franco, go franco, go franco!
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > > 4 - Is july 2007 still the release date?
> >
> > I don't really think so, more likely will be by the end of the year.
> >
> > --
> > haXe - an open source web programming language
> > http://haxe.org
> >
>
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>


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