Hey Jon Skeet

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Michael C

You know an awful lot about C#. Have you written a book I can go buy? If
not, you should write one and reserve me the first copy.

Thanks!
Michael C.
 
Heck, Jon, I'll edit together your post from this group together for you and
create a best-selling C# book for you.

;)

Richard
 
Ug, not with English usage like that I won't. :(

My point being, it would make an interesting book to see 200 or 300 hundred
of your most useful and unique answers in a bound volume.

Richard
 
Richard A. Lowe said:
Ug, not with English usage like that I won't. :(

My point being, it would make an interesting book to see 200 or 300
hundred
of your most useful and unique answers in a bound volume.
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I think such a thing would be interesting from the newsgroup as a
whole(although Jon's prolific and thorough enough to probably warrant a book
or two of his own, ;). A lot of interesting information does come through
here, from a variety of people.
 
Michael C said:
You know an awful lot about C#. Have you written a book I can go buy?
If not, you should write one and reserve me the first copy.
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I haven't written a book yet, but I'd like to some day. The trouble is,
there already seem to be plenty of decent books on almost any topic I'd
be able to write about.

I'm hoping that when I teach my son to program (it'll be a while - he's
only 7 months old at the moment) I'll write a book for kids about it.
 
I'm hoping that when I teach my son to program (it'll be a while - he's
only 7 months old at the moment) I'll write a book for kids about it.
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Great I can then ask my son to help me, when I don't understand ....
:)

Ulf
 
I'm hoping that when I teach my son to program (it'll be a while - he's
Don't forget to include a quick primer on the alphabet before starting with
threading (chapter one) :-)
 
Hi Jon !
I haven't written a book yet, but I'd like to some day. The trouble is,
there already seem to be plenty of decent books on almost any topic I'd
be able to write about.
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My impression is that every book seems to handle the same subject at the same level. Everyone has
(for instance) a chapter on how to write and read a binary file or a text file, but as soon as you
need to do something special, then you're dependent on people like you on the newsgroups.

What I think wold be an good idea is that you wrote small "magazines" or thin books about some
spesific area. Wrap it up in a PDF and sell them through internet. Get som other experts in other
areas and make a business out if it.

It doesn't cost much more than time to try it out, and I think that it will be popular.


Best wishes
Kai Bohli
(e-mail address removed)
Norway
 
Kai Bohli said:
My impression is that every book seems to handle the same subject at
the same level. Everyone has (for instance) a chapter on how to write
and read a binary file or a text file, but as soon as you need to do
something special, then you're dependent on people like you on the
newsgroups.

What I think wold be an good idea is that you wrote small "magazines"
or thin books about some spesific area. Wrap it up in a PDF and sell
them through internet. Get som other experts in other areas and make
a business out if it.

It doesn't cost much more than time to try it out, and I think that
it will be popular.
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Well, currently I'm happy publishing articles like that for free:
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp

I've considered applying to write for MSDN magazine etc. Might do that
some time...
 
Yes, absolutely, although I haven't been hanging out lately, there are
definately a number of other people who contribue in many areas. Actually,
this is one of the lowest-noise NGs I've ever seen.

R.
 
I've considered applying to write for MSDN magazine etc. Might do that
some time...
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You *should* do that and maybe consider writing ebooks for someone like Dan
Appleman at Desaware. I love Dan's "Hijacking .NET" PDFs. I think the
ebook format gives you the chance to be more focused in scope and topic
choice. Just a thought. You're a good writer, Jon, as well as being
preternaturally knowledgable about .NET topics :) (where do you MVPs with
kids find the time!)

Richard
 
Daniel Jin said:
would be neat if you and Nick and a few others could join force and
compile a comprehensive and definitive newsgroup faq. I've learned a
lot of advanced topics by following this group for a while, I think a
lot of things covered here from time to time are quite beneficial,
things you might not need right away, but at some point in time,
comes in very handy.
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Well, there's the FAQ at
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/faq which includes ways of
suggesting more FAQ entries...
 
There are a lot of books out there that cover a lot of stuff, but most of it
seems to cover just the basics from a single point of view. I think someone
else already pointed out that if you want to do anything that doesn't fit
the pre-defined mold of the author's point of view, you're in for a lot of
bangin' your head against the wall. I've noticed (and I'm sure a lot of
others have too) that your answers are very detailed, and you often give
multiple alternatives to people's problems. A book like that I could use.

As it stands now, every time I can't locate specific info. that fits very
tightly with what I'm trying to do via the search engines I end up reading
the entire index of dozens of books at my local Barnes & Nobles. You should
really consider packaging up a "Best of Jon Skeet" series. Even if it's
just re-packaging the solutions you've offered here on the newsgroups in the
past, I think it'd be well worth my money. Hell, right now I have about 10
C#.NET books... and I'm still hitting the bookstore once a week or so. I've
learned more reading your posts than from all these books so far. So if you
decide to write that book, put aside my autographed copy first!

Thanks!
Michael C.
 
Without doubt Jon comes very high (if not top) of this pile of people I
consider "experts" on this newsgroup. I definately like the idea of detailed
pdf's on particular area's *but* then would people be prepared to pay -me
yes, you yes, but many people would rather trawl through hundreds of sites
till they get their answer.

In the meantime Im just grateful these guys are helping comparative newbies
like me :)

Since Jon is interested in taking sermons he could call his book series
"preaching to the converted" -the converted being us C#/.net addicts.

br,

Mark.
 
Since Jon is interested in taking sermons he could call his book series
"preaching to the converted" -the converted being us C#/.net addicts.
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ceremony.RaiseArms();
Console.Write("Amen brother!");
ceremony.Continue();

etc. :-)

Quite geeky, I know ..
 
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