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Your Amazon Nim book review #1

Open StefanSalewski opened 1 year ago

StefanSalewski commented 1 year ago

Dear Sir,

I just saw your review at https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Nim-complete-programming-language/dp/B0B4R7B9YX

Your review gives some good insights -- it is what I already heard from rumors -- I have currently not the motivation to buy and read it, and I think it would be not of much use for me. And none of my friends read it also.

I assume that you, as a Nim beginner, has read my book as well. Can you give me some hints what I may improve still? Is there something that is missing from my book but contained in the book of Mr. Rumpf? I did a lot of grammar fixes lately, so grammar should be not too bad an more. And some months ago I added as one of the final missing parts the "concepts" section. But concepts are still work in progress. You may have seen, that additional to the old https://ssalewski.de/nimprogramming.html location, we now have a dedicated page with PDF releases: https://nimprogrammingbook.com/ but that page is not updated that often. Maybe in the next year, we will release a printed book version at Amazon, but actually we have no hope that some one will buy it, despite two people that asked for a paper version a year ago. Currently, I have the feeling that I am still able to improve the book a bit, so I hesitate to print it already yet. I think I will do some more grammar fixes, and a final proofread before printing. I am unsure if the book is already too thick. Maybe adding FFI and JS sections would be really to much.

Best regards, Dr. Stefan Salewski

JeysonFlores commented 1 year ago

Hello Stefan and sorry for replying two weeks after you posted this issue. I have been extremely busy with some stuff. After reading the book I got busy with many things and all this "Nim stuff" is just a side project for me. I haven't read your book but I do know about your awesome job on the GTK bindings. I really appreciate you taking the time to ask for feedback, be sure that as soon as I have some free time to continue my Nim journey I will take a deep look into your book. Is there any email or social network I can contact you to keep up with the feedback and deliver it to you as soon as possible?

StefanSalewski commented 1 year ago

Hello,

as you bought and read the book of Rumpf and wrote that detailed review, I had the hope that you also read my free beginner book before. Please don't feel obligated to read my book.

For contacts, we have the Github issue tracker at https://github.com/StefanSalewski/NimProgrammingBook, and my email address for private messages is mail@ssalewski.de. Everyone can post book reviews and other remarks in the issue tracker. The book website https://nimprogrammingbook.com has no user forum, but I can add reviews there. Later, maybe much later, I will also publish the book at Amazon, so it may get some more popularity, and people can then create reviews there. Unfortunately, in these days, we seem to have only very few people who desire to learn Nim and have enough motivation and energy to read a book. I have not much motivation to do some Nim work myself currently. As you may have noticed, some days ago they released Nim 2.0, maybe that could be a reason to try Nim again. My book includes most of Nim 2.0 new features already, but I will check again.

I recently discovered, that there is another tiny Nim book at Amazon, see https://nimprogramming.com/books/allbooks/#nim-programming-the-next-generation-programming-language-for-software-development. And there are rumors that they will update "Mastering Nim" for 2.0.