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(scientific) books #27

Closed markuman closed 3 years ago

markuman commented 8 years ago

today I've made a discovery by accident while searching for lua in a mathematically field.

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4020-9920-5 "Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Engineering Models"

Take a look the the "Front Matter", chapter 2.2 "Lua as a Programming Language". Or take a look at "Numerical Fundamentals and Computer Programming" -> "Look inside" -> last break:

Of all these scripting languages, the language with the fastest execution speed is Lua and because of this it is finding increasing applications in computer games. Lua also probably has the simplest and most straightforward syntax and the sim- plest data structure as only one data type, a table, is supported by the native lan- guage. ...

Of source not the cheapest book. But what about creating a book section?

Etiene commented 8 years ago

What exactly should go in a book section? Reviews of books?

markuman commented 8 years ago

...if someone is willing to write a review, then yes (I've never read a book about Lua until now). Or an overview what's available (and up to date) or what the book is addressing (basic, gaming, science...) and maybe w/o partner link to funding lua/lua.space/support the community?

Etiene commented 8 years ago

Oh! You mean that if we have a section listing Lua related books and someone buys them through our page we could use that as a way to fund more community stuff?

markuman commented 8 years ago

it might work, or may not ...

Etiene commented 8 years ago

I don't see why not trying, specially if everyone agrees that's fine x) I was just trying to understand if that's really the suggestion :) I'll investigate how referrals like those work and in the meantime others can comment what they think :)

undefdev commented 8 years ago

Do you know a lot of Lua books that are recommendable? Apart from programming in Lua I haven't read anything, and if our book section would only consist of books we don't know about it's a bit strange.

I don't think that these kind of referral links would be a viable source of income anyway, how many people do you expect to buy books through Lua.space, and how much do you guys think we would get for each sale?

I think the job section is way more promising, and should be focused on for now.

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I don't see why not trying, specially if everyone agrees that's fine x) I was just trying to understand if that's really the suggestion :) I'll investigate how referrals like those work and in the meantime others can comment what they think :)

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