[News] wxWidgets book available for download

[takeshimiya]

Hi!
Good news here: the wxWidgets book has been made available to download for free as a PDF from here.

Quoting from the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series page:
"Each book in the Series is published under the Open Publication License, an Open Source compatible book license. Electronic versions will be made available at no cost several months after each book's publication."

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learn wxWidgets programming, or if you already know, explains things you may have wonder. It gives an adequate overview (not short and not boring either) over all wxWidgets and other related cross-platform topics.

Other interesting free PDF books from the Perens' Series in the cross-platform topic are:

• C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3
• Rapid Application Development with Mozilla
• Subversion Version Control: Using the Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects
• Linux Development Platform, The

Hope this serves as a start or profundization, to anyone that wants to do cross-platform GUI programming.

[yop]

Thanks Takeshi Miya 

[killerbot]

totally cool, only I bought it 6 weeks ago. But hey it will help others.  People, download this one and read it (I still have to read a whole lot of it myself).

[takeshimiya]

Bonus: look what's at the end of the page 595 (631 of 774).

[sethjackson]

Yeah. I downloaded it yesterday..... Oh man page 595 that is so totally cool.  I hadn't seen that. Well I really hadn't started reading the book yet... If you can't find it it is at the bottom of page 595. 

[grunerite]

Bonus: look what's at the end of the page 595 (631 of 774).

But, what is CodeBlocks ??

[Michael]

Hello,

Thank you very much Takeshi Miya .

Best wishes,
Michael

[ZekeDragon]

On the same page the awesomeness was on...

HelpBlocks?!

And awesome, much appreciated Takeshi.

[takeshimiya]

On the same page the awesomeness was on...

HelpBlocks?!

Yes, seems that there are various Blocks out there: we have CodeBlocks, DialogBlocks, HelpBlocks :lol:
And they all share some things, such as: being made in wxWidgets, being cross-platform, the three haves very simmilar logos (all haves blocks, and they all share 3 colors, red, yellow, and blue).
It's great that Julian will probably never complain about the name or the logo about being simmilar I hope.
He already suffered from the wxWindows to wxWidgets rename thanks to the 'you know who'.

Keep reading the book!

[ZekeDragon]

...the three haves very simmilar logos (all haves blocks, and they all share 3 colors, red, yellow, and blue).

But Code::Blocks has an advantage.  It has Green!

[zmodem]

Strange, on the same page that they sell the book on, they provide a free PDF download of the entire thing. 

Why would you spend money on the book when you could download it?

A suprising move...

[takeshimiya]

Strange, on the same page that they sell the book on, they provide a free PDF download of the entire thing. 

Why would you spend money on the book when you could download it?

A suprising move...

Welcome to the OpenSource world.

There are some common reasons:
-Supporting the project and authors.
-Having it printed to read it everywhere.

BTW, it's mostly the same reasons as why anyone would download an mp3 and then later buy the real album.
It is not uncommon indeed.

[sethjackson]

Some people like having a print copy (besides a quick PDF reference)......

[tiwag]

here you can view & download the errata list which regards also to the pdf version of the wxWidgets book

http://wxwidgets.org/book/errata.htm

[zmodem]

Welcome to the OpenSource world.

I'm not new to the open source world.  I've just never seen the principles of open source software, apply to anything other than software/technology. 

Good to know

BTW, it's mostly the same reasons as why anyone would download an mp3 and then later buy the real album.

True...true.  You got me there