I'd love to work on such a book with the right team - at a project design level, and in particular to help design and develop the schematic, graphic, illustrative aspects. Both for print, and in Flash as Kirby suggests. A CDROM could run a could flash one-click executable for multimedia support but also connect to python installation, IDLE, web/html etc. Perhaps a couple of valuable dovetail chapters might be a Jython section - that could open up the broad topic of virtual machines, APIs, embedding, scripting and glue-ware. Then the pragmatics. Might be a nice way to help the two books to be sold on the same shelf, and hopefully also in the O'Reilly racks. I worked in publishing for 10 years before moving into multimedia and web, but boo building is close to my heart. - Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org> To: "Kirby Urner" <urnerk@qwest.net> Cc: <edu-sig@python.org>; "Jason Cunliffe" <jason.cunliffe@verizon.net> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:55 AM Subject: Re: [Edu-sig] re: book: Head First Java
I noticed this book at OSCON, and spoke briefly with Tim O'Reilly about it. He was interested in doing a Python version if a good author (or more likely a good team of authors) would present itself.
Any takers?
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)