----- Original Message ----- From: "Boris Schaeling" <boris@highscore.de> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Cc: <asio-users@lists.sourceforge.net>; <boost-users@lists.boost.org>; <boost-docs@lists.boost.org> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 12:21 PM Subject: [boost] Book "The Boost C++ Libraries" now in English
Andreas and I are pleased to announce that the book "The Boost C++ Libraries" is now available in English: <http://en.highscore.de/cpp/boost/>
At this point I have to thank Andreas who started translating the 16 chapters of my book nearly a year ago and managed to finish this tremendous amount of work after all that time. Without him there wouldn't be a single sentence of my book available in English. Thank you, Andreas! :-)
While you can simply click on <http://en.highscore.de/cpp/boost/> and have a look, here are some explanations in case someone is interested:
* The book is licensed under a Creative Commons License and can be copied, distributed and transmitted for non-commercial use. As the part "for non-commercial use" might raise some concerns: You are definitely allowed to use the book at work (print it, hand it out to colleagues, publish it on intranet web servers etc.). We also welcome trainers who want to use the book in classes about the Boost C++ libraries (even if you are paid as a trainer). There is no need to ask us for permission either. What we don't want to see though is e.g. a commercial IT magazine simply filling pages by printing the book.
* The book currently consists of 16 chapters. While there are some chapters which present only one library, others introduce a couple of libraries. I decided not to write one chapter per library because some libraries are so small that it's all explained within a few paragraphs. If you want to lookup libraries though you find direct links in the overview at <http://en.highscore.de/cpp/boost/introduction.html#introduction_overview>.
* There is a link "Found an error? Fix it in your browser!" below the table of contents in every chapter (your browser must support Javascript to display the link). If you click on the link the webpage becomes editable. This makes it rather easy to fix typos or other mistakes. Changes are saved on the server and will be reviewed (to protect against spam).
* If you click on "Found an error? Fix it in your browser!" there is another option called "Mark keywords". If you select this option you can mark words (by clicking on them). The idea is to create an index by marking those words which you think should be included in an index. As it's quite a lot of work to create a good index we welcome proposals of what to include.
* For those who know German there is still the original version of the book at <http://www.highscore.de/cpp/boost/>. The content is the very same (even same sample codes). We will also keep the books in sync (it's not that the German version won't be updated anymore).
* You can download the HTML version of the book from <http://en.highscore.de/cpp/boost/The%20Boost%20C++%20Libraries.zip>. The ZIP file contains all the web pages and other resources you need to read the book offline. For those who'd like to get a PDF or ePub version of the book there are links to download them. You'll notice that the download of those versions is not for free. The money is used to pay server costs and to finance new chapters. We hope you agree that the prices are reasonable.
* If you purchase the ePub version of the book I am very interested in your feedback. As the eBook market is still rather small it's difficult to get the feedback you need to understand what to improve.
Given that there have been many discussions lately about what's wrong with Boost, we hope that this book will give the Boost libraries and C++ another, well, boost. :-)
Hi, I have added a link to your book on the References wiki page I have created some weeks ago. See https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/References HTH, Vicente