On 10/29/2010 09:08 PM, David Kirkby wrote: > On 30 October 2010 02:22, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Sage-Devel, >> I'm curious if people are getting emails like this... >> (I don't have anything to do with this PacktPub project. Generally, I think >> it is best for people to write documentation for Sage that can be >> distributed with Sage, and is organized using Sphinx, etc.) > > Clearly there is a need for documentation in Sphinx, but books are > very useful too. They are many reasons a professionally bound book > beats a PDF one can print out for free. The book "Practical Common > Lisp" > > http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ > > is available as a free PDF, but I'd personally rather buy the book > than print out 500 pages and try to bind it myself. > > I think Sage would gain a bit more creditability if there were books > on it published from places like Springer or Wiley. > > Good luck to anyone that has written a book on Sage.
There's already a nice CC-licensed book about Sage written in French: http://sagebook.gforge.inria.fr/ Are there any plans to make a print version and/or translations? -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
