What are the Practical Guides Planned? I am thinking that the current books on programming and software technology are very narrowly focused and the result I'm seeing are many programmers without a good, broad fundamental understanding. Of course, they could go get an MSCS but such is not the case.
What do you think about the Practical Guides having a basis in a general text on programming. Or multiple general texts. What I mean is that a general text could introduce the basics of SQL and then refrence other practical guides on SQL and RDBMS's, for instance. Also these would all reference Practical Guides on Interbase, MySQL, etc. This would mean that the practical guide would know what knowledge to assume of the reader. Well, most importantly, I think this idea of practical guides invites each of us to write a very solid guide to a certain technology. Of course, an outline for the guide's suggested layout should be provided and other things to make sure we don't end up with repeating information as occurs in most books by committee (e.g. "Java Server Programming: J2EE Edition" by Wrox Press). Could this be a plan for the Practical Guides?
Tim
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What are the Practical Guides Planned? I am thinking that the current books on programming and software technology are very narrowly focused and the result I'm seeing are many programmers without a good, broad fundamental understanding. Of course, they could go get an MSCS but such is not the case.
What do you think about the Practical Guides having a basis in a general text on programming. Or multiple general texts. What I mean is that a general text could introduce the basics of SQL and then refrence other practical guides on SQL and RDBMS's, for instance. Also these would all reference Practical Guides on Interbase, MySQL, etc. This would mean that the practical guide would know what knowledge to assume of the reader. Well, most importantly, I think this idea of practical guides invites each of us to write a very solid guide to a certain technology. Of course, an outline for the guide's suggested layout should be provided and other things to make sure we don't end up with repeating information as occurs in most books by committee (e.g. "Java Server Programming: J2EE Edition" by Wrox Press). Could this be a plan for the Practical Guides?
Tim
email me at timjowers at yahoo.com if we can work together to do something like this.