Seek advice - "Ada for Smart People"

Seek advice - "Ada for Smart People"

[BSCrawford]

Teamers, 

The need for a small book called "Ada for Dummies" was discussed 
here a while back, and someone suggested it should be called 
"Ada for Smart People" instead. 

Well, I have drafted a small volume called "Ada Essentials: 
Overview, Examples and Glossary" and now I am hoping to find a 
publisher.  This is new territory for me, and I seek any advice 
you teamers care to give, as to specific publishers I might 
contact or how to go about this process in general. 

By the way, I plan to make this volume available in several 
different forms (some electronic) -- one of which is a 
browser-based collection of web pages.  I would be happy to 
send a copy of the current draft to, say, each of the first 20 
teamers who request one from me directly via email (not through 
this list). 

Bard S. Crawford
bscrawford@aol.com

Re: Seek advice - "Ada for Smart People"

[Jeff Carter]

BSCrawford wrote:
> Well, I have drafted a small volume called "Ada Essentials:
> Overview, Examples and Glossary" and now I am hoping to find a
> publisher.  This is new territory for me, and I seek any advice
> you teamers care to give, as to specific publishers I might
> contact or how to go about this process in general.

Congratifications! You might consider Addison Wesley (not sure of
spelling) and O'Reilly.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I unclog my nose towards you."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Re: Seek advice - "Ada for Smart People"

[Ehud Lamm]

I'd be interested in hearing any ideas too, since my book "The Little
Abstractionist" seems to be of a similar kind, and I - too - know little
about getting things published by the major publishers.
So if any answers go by private mail, please cc me.

Thanks

Ehud Lamm mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il
http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ehudlamm <== My home on the web 
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Re: Seek advice - "Ada for Smart People"

[Preben Randhol]

Jeff Carter <jrcarter010@earthlink.net> writes:

| Congratifications! You might consider Addison Wesley (not sure of
| spelling) and O'Reilly.

Or New Rider <URL: http://www.newriders.com>

They have also published books under the Open Content License. 

See :
<URL: http://www2.newriders.com/cfm/prod_book.cfm?RecordID=116>
<URL: http://www2.newriders.com/cfm/prod_book.cfm?RecordID=585>

-- 
Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/]     
         "Det eneste trygge stedet i verden er inne i en fortelling." 
                                                      -- Athol Fugard

Re: Seek advice - "Ada for Smart People"

[Ted Dennison]

In article <38937FA6.D0F8D1F1@earthlink.net>,
  jrcarter@acm.org wrote:
> BSCrawford wrote:
> > Well, I have drafted a small volume called "Ada Essentials:
> > Overview, Examples and Glossary" and now I am hoping to find a
> > publisher.  This is new territory for me, and I seek any advice
> > you teamers care to give, as to specific publishers I might
> > contact or how to go about this process in general.
>
> Congratifications! You might consider Addison Wesley (not sure of
> spelling) and O'Reilly.

I have absolutely no experience on this subject. However, I think it
would be awesome to have an Ada "nutshell" book out there.

Also, if you do manage to get it published with a major technical
publisher, I'd suggest asking Grady Booch to do the foreward. He's an
Ada enthusiast who's well respected in non-Ada circles.

--
T.E.D.

http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html


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Re: Seek advice - "Ada for Smart People"

[John J Cupak Jr]

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Bard, et. al.,

I can't speak for any publisher, but there WAS a nice Ada 83 "nutshell"
(although not by the O'Reilly folks) book entitled "Ada Programmer's
Handbook" by Dean W. Gonzalez, 1991, Benjamin/Cumming Publishing
Company, Inc. I picked it up at a book sale, and thought it was a
wonderful handbook. We certianly need such a book for Ada 95!

Please let me know how you make out!

John "Ada Forever" Cupak

BSCrawford wrote:

> Teamers,
>
> The need for a small book called "Ada for Dummies" was discussed
> here a while back, and someone suggested it should be called
> "Ada for Smart People" instead.
>
> Well, I have drafted a small volume called "Ada Essentials:
> Overview, Examples and Glossary" and now I am hoping to find a
> publisher.  This is new territory for me, and I seek any advice
> you teamers care to give, as to specific publishers I might
> contact or how to go about this process in general.
>
> By the way, I plan to make this volume available in several
> different forms (some electronic) -- one of which is a
> browser-based collection of web pages.  I would be happy to
> send a copy of the current draft to, say, each of the first 20
> teamers who request one from me directly via email (not through
> this list).
>
> Bard S. Crawford
> bscrawford@aol.com

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Re: Seek advice - "Ada for Smart People"

[Richard D Riehle]

In article <20000129150740.12476.00000187@nso-fg.aol.com>,
	bscrawford@aol.com (BSCrawford) wrote:

>Well, I have drafted a small volume called "Ada Essentials: 
>Overview, Examples and Glossary" and now I am hoping to find a 
>publisher.  This is new territory for me, and I seek any advice 
>you teamers care to give, as to specific publishers I might 
>contact or how to go about this process in general. 

Bard and I seem to be moving in the same direction.  I have a 
little booklet I use as a supplement in my Ada classes, including a
glossary, I call "Ada Distilled."   I wonder how many others are 
developing this kind of thing.  

Bard's work is a bit more comprehensive than mine, I think. "Ada
Distilled" is targeted at programmers.  It is mostly a collection
of example programs with line-by-line comments, not a complete
coverage of the language.  

There is a need for more of these little booklets to aid people in 
their study of Ada.  I am considering making "Ada Distilled" available
on David Botton's site when I feel it is stable enough.  

Richard Riehle
richard@adaworks.com