I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k in pre-orders

Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by walterbell on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @05:11AM (#9850593)

Congrats on shipping! How did you decide which code/commands to include in the book and which ones to publish online? This works well for ebooks (avoids errata), but is less convenient for readers of the paperback edition.

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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by limedaring on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @07:27AM (#9850918)

Do you mean the code that's on Github (like the installation instructions) and not in the paperback? The install stuff is online because I highly suspect it'll need to be updated often, and I didn't want the book to go out of date quickly. Let me know if I misunderstood the question!

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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by walterbell on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @09:27AM (#9851351)

Yes, I was referring to the code on GitHub.

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Re:I self-published a learn-to-code book and made nearly $5k... by limedaring on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:07PM (#9852550)

I'm assuming/hoping that most paperback readers will still have a computer in front of them when going through the book since it's a tutorial, so hopefully opening up the GitHub code isn't that much of an inconvenience. If they're ideally reading without a computer, then missing that chapter shouldn't be a problem.

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