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Re: Book project
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Fotios Kasolis |
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Re: Book project |
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Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:15:42 +0200 |
On Jun 10, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Jake wrote:
> Point taken, but do you see what I'm saying? Since Octave has like the same
> syntax and functions, there are a billion and one other resources that
> people can use besides this supposed book. Including a CD with the actual
> software, for free, would obviously be a huge boost in making it unique.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaroslav Hajek [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 9:25 AM
> To: Jake
> Cc: Fotios Kasolis; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Book project
>
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Jake <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Well the fact of the matter is, there are literally hundreds if not
>> thousands of MATLAB books. If Octave has almost the same exact syntax
>> and functions as MATLAB, then why would anyone want to read this book?
>> That's why I think it should cover maybe a little bit of the basics,
>> but mainly focus on what Octave can do that MATLAB can't.
>>
>
> Here's a minor point: a printed Octave book can be accompanied by a CD with
> Octave (rpms, debs, Win installers, sources etc) and extension packages. I
> think the same is not true for any book on MATLAB :)
>
>
> --
> RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek, PhD
> computing expert & GNU Octave developer
> Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU) Prague, Czech Republic
> url: www.highegg.matfyz.cz
>
Your example is very nice (but on the other direction).
1) If all those N(->inf) authors were saying "oh there are N-1 books why should
i write one? for the same language" then the number of books converges to 0
(since mathwor*s) already had documentation. The same example holds for any
other topic!
2) A project that will help everybody become an author is very attractive, and
that will help Octave to become even more famous!
3) We are going to put a lot of innovation (topic wise, presentation wise, etc).
4) People that would never contribute a function will now do it through their
work (and then other people will improve them and built them in Octave).
5) Prove that a community exists and is active!!!
- Book project, Fotios Kasolis, 2010/06/10
- RE: Book project, Jake, 2010/06/10
- Re: Book project, Fotios Kasolis, 2010/06/10
- RE: Book project, Jake, 2010/06/10
- Re: Book project, Jaroslav Hajek, 2010/06/10
- RE: Book project, Jake, 2010/06/10
- Re: Book project,
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