I pre-ordered it a while back; I love the Parallelism chapter. Cleared up a lot of things for me as to the concurrency model of Nim.
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#12I've checked my doorstep for this book every afternoon since April ;) and am super stoked. Great book! I've learned a lot through the projects.
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#13I see there is supposed to be videos that didn't make it into the book. What subject matter will those cover?
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#14Author here. The development of this book has taken a while but I'm happy to say that it is now in print! Chapter 1 and 8 are free so be sure to give them a look if you're new to Nim. Previous discussion for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10987975 Happy to answer any questions.
Perhaps you should make chapter 3 free too? That's the kind of material is want to see before I decide if I like the language or the book.
Of course, you might have a good reason not to do it, but that was my first thought when looking at the web site.
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#16I just ordered my book. Here's a 37% off discount code: fccpicheta courtesey of /r/nim and /u/psychotic_primes
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#17I just ordered my book. Here's a 37% off discount code: fccpicheta courtesey of /r/nim and /u/psychotic_primes
Thanks, that convinced me to pull the trigger.
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#18Author here. The development of this book has taken a while but I'm happy to say that it is now in print! Chapter 1 and 8 are free so be sure to give them a look if you're new to Nim. Previous discussion for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10987975 Happy to answer any questions.
Perhaps you should make chapter 3 free too? That's the kind of material is want to see before I decide if I like the language or the book. Of course, you might have a good reason not to do it, but that was my first thought when looking at the web site.
That is the big advantage of getting books out on shelves, so people can look through them. That's harder to do with more independent works.
Now that I think about it, I use to buy programming books in University and just after (2005-ish), but I haven't really since. Even when I work places where we have a book budget; I never request anything. These days I read the documentation, and if I get stuck, I go to a stack exchange site.
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#19Author here. The development of this book has taken a while but I'm happy to say that it is now in print! Chapter 1 and 8 are free so be sure to give them a look if you're new to Nim. Previous discussion for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10987975 Happy to answer any questions.
Perhaps you should make chapter 3 free too? That's the kind of material is want to see before I decide if I like the language or the book. Of course, you might have a good reason not to do it, but that was my first thought when looking at the web site.
One of the things that can hook you into a new language is having a really well written introduction book that gives you the philosophy of the designers and the big picture while moving through the syntax and semantics.
The book is roughly 300 pages. Even with a careful reading that's only a few days invested.
For instance I read Roberto Ierusalimschys's Programming in Lua and Niklaus Wirth's Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs. But have never really had a project which fit either of those languages. I still enjoyed the books.
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#20I see there is supposed to be videos that didn't make it into the book. What subject matter will those cover?
Currently my plan for these videos is a couple of "how to"s for Nim. For example: a simple one showing how to install Nim.