I am interested in participating.
>>> alex_at_slab.org 08/27/06 6:43 AM >>>
I was wondering if anyone's thought of writing a book about
livecoding.
Either way, is it a good idea? My initial thought was that we could
put
together a proposal to o'reilly as an excercise, and if they don't
accept it go ahead anyway, perhaps as a wikibook.
I don't know if it would really fit into o'reilly's series but I'm
thinking an introductory chapter about each of the main systems, a
chapter on the theory of interactive programming, a chapter about the
technicalities of doing so in a range of languages, a bit about
cutting
edge livecoding techniques - use of history, the blurring between code
and GUI and so on... So instructive but still with plenty room for
humour.
On one hand a publisher like O'Reilly won't like a proposal with more
than a few authors, and on the other a wikibook should have as many as
possible... So we see who's interested I guess.
On the other hand maybe this is a bad/old fashioned idea and we should
just stick with the wikis we already have. I just think it might be
something fun to work towards.
alex
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