Hello all,
In an effort to give back to our developers, I hereby present to you the Developer Education Book Campaign 2013 !
We'd like to give an educational present to our most active contributors. The board has decided to buy a programming book for each of the top 10 contributors of 2013! The ranking is determined by the number of commits to trunk in the past 12 months, as calculated by Ohloh.net [1] [2]:
Kris de Gussem Alex Valavanis Markus Engel Matthew Petroff Nicolas Dufour Martin Owens Tavmjong Bah Krzysztof Kosiński Sebastian Wüst Alvin Penner
Thank you very much for your great work in 2013!!!
These 2013 rockstars can choose from one of the following books: a) Effective C++, 3rd Ed. by Scott Meyers b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler c) A Tour of C++ (C++11) by Bjarne Stroustrup
The developer is also allowed to pass it on to the runner-up if he so wishes. Because I initiated the book campaign, I will pass (don't worry, I've already ordered my book ;).
So now you might think: wait a minute..., these coders get a book on how to program... are they that bad? They are not bad; they could be even better! We all can improve our coding, and there is no shame at all in reading up and refreshing our coding skills. Every day I am reading Stroustrup's C++11 tome in the train to work, no joke!
I hope you all will enjoy your present, and can perhaps share with us the best things you've learned :-)
Cheers to a good start in 2014! Johan
[1] http://www.ohloh.net/p/inkscape/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo [2] I'm sorry if you feel this metric is unfair and skewed. We had to agree on some metric, knowing that any metric is imperfect.
I am very happy to have managed to squeak my way onto the list, but I would like to pass my book on to ~suv. She deserves very special recognition for her absolutely indefatigable devotion to the cause.
Alvin Penner
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On 21-1-2014 7:11, su_v wrote:
On 2014-01-21 24:43 +0100, alvinpenner wrote:
I am very happy to have managed to squeak my way onto the list, but I would like to pass my book on to ~suv.
Thanks a lot, but I'll pass it on, too.
Indeed, ~suv deserves something nice, thinking on that...! ;) She doesn't want your gift Alvin! Do you reconsider your passing? :P ;-)
Cheers, Johan
Do you reconsider your passing? :P ;-)
okay, well, in that case I would be very interested in receiving b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. I am too old to try to learn C++, my knowledge of C is limited to C, no ++. But I am very much interested in refactoring, and the book is written with Java, which coincides very well with my future plans.
Thanks, Alvin
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On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 23:10 +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
These 2013 rockstars can choose from one of the following books: a) Effective C++, 3rd Ed. by Scott Meyers b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler c) A Tour of C++ (C++11) by Bjarne Stroustrup
This is a hard list to choose from. Please send me the best book for a python/perl programmer who has done some c, java and others but not anything large.
Martin,
On 21-1-2014 3:03, Martin Owens wrote:
On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 23:10 +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
These 2013 rockstars can choose from one of the following books: a) Effective C++, 3rd Ed. by Scott Meyers b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler c) A Tour of C++ (C++11) by Bjarne Stroustrup
This is a hard list to choose from. Please send me the best book for a python/perl programmer who has done some c, java and others but not anything large.
That will be choice C then, A Tour of C++. It is especially written for programmers coming from other languages and it will get you very well informed about modern C++.
Cheers, Johan
On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 23:10 +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
These 2013 rockstars can choose from one of the following books: a) Effective C++, 3rd Ed. by Scott Meyers b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler c) A Tour of C++ (C++11) by Bjarne Stroustrup
I can see a bunch of refactoring in my future. I would like b).
Thanks,
Tav
Hi,
On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 23:10 +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
These 2013 rockstars can choose from one of the following books: a) Effective C++, 3rd Ed. by Scott Meyers b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler c) A Tour of C++ (C++11) by Bjarne Stroustrup
Thank your very much! It seems that Effective C++ is very likely to help me improve my (limited) skills.
Regards, -- Nicolas
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Johan Engelen <jbc.engelen@...2592...>wrote:
These 2013 rockstars can choose from one of the following books: a) Effective C++, 3rd Ed. by Scott Meyers b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler c) A Tour of C++ (C++11) by Bjarne Stroustrup
I learned on C++98, so it might be useful learning about the new features in C++11. I would like choice C. Thanks.
-Matthew
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:10:49PM +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
In an effort to give back to our developers, I hereby present to you the Developer Education Book Campaign 2013 !
We'd like to give an educational present to our most active contributors. The board has decided to buy a programming book for each of the top 10 contributors of 2013!
These 2013 rockstars can choose from one of the following books: a) Effective C++, 3rd Ed. by Scott Meyers b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler c) A Tour of C++ (C++11) by Bjarne Stroustrup
Thank you very much for your great work in 2013!!!
All books have been ordered as last week. Recipients in the US should be receiving their books now. Canadians should receive books over the coming week. European residents should be receving the books within a month. If you provided me with an address and do not receive a book within these time frames, please let me know.
Let me add to Johan's thanks a thank-you out to everyone who has donated to Inkscape. Your funding has made this educational effort possible. If in the coming months and years you find Inkscape to be more robust, responsive, and performant, the credit could indeed originate from your contribution to the project.
Bryce
participants (8)
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alvinpenner -
Bryce Harrington -
Johan Engelen -
Martin Owens -
Matthew Petroff -
Nicolas Dufour -
su_v -
Tavmjong Bah