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Just want to thank you for doing this!

I highly recommend the books "Mastering Bitcoin" by Andreas Antonopoulos (technical, for beginners) and "Programming Bitcoin" by Jimmy Song (very technical, advanced).

Nice idea to give free access to the book for one day. I bought it a few weeks ago can really recommend it. At the moment this is the only Meteor book I am aware of that covers all necessary topics to get you started.

I experienced one minor issue though concerning reading the book on a kindle (paperwhite): https://github.com/DiscoverMeteor/book/issues/120 Luckily there is a workaround for that by sending the PDF to your @kindle.com email address using the subject "convert". This fixes the font issues.

This is a really good book for teaching beginners Ruby on Rails. But, in my opinion, what makes it stand out compared to a lot of other books on this topic is the following:

I'm using Rails for a few years now and I still have problems to figure out where to start when I have to explain it to somebody who doesn't know anything about it.

Many books just throw their readers into a topic. This causes a lot of confusion early on, which will (hopefully) be reduced while reading the book. I don't like that approach very much.

I think, this book here does it the right way: It first explains the web and by which technologies it is driven. Then it tells how Rails fits into the picture.

What I also really like are the short explanations of user stories, software development methodologies and agile methodologies. I think it is important that new developers have at least heard about those topics even though they may not know how to use them in the beginning.

Good work!