Re: CFP: A Librarian's Introduction to Programming Languages

From: Kyle Banerjee <kyle.banerjee_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:51:19 -0700
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Shaun Ellis <shaune_at_princeton.edu> wrote:

> Have you considered writing/editing it in public using this model for
> community contribution?
>
> https://github.com/addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals
>
> I went through most that book and was quite impressed with how it came
> together.
>

This is largely how PLEAC works http://pleac.sourceforge.net/ For generic
programming tasks, it strikes me best to contribute to an existing project
as the amount of work/content required for a decent cookbook is huge.

There is some sense in also having a library specific cookbook as we deal
with a number of formats and technologies that are not really used
elsewhere. One thing that complicates matters is that needs tend to be
highly specific and built around individual systems/procedures where more
specialized lists are your best bet.

kyle



kyle
Received on Thu Mar 27 2014 - 13:51:51 EDT