Re: Electronic version of the Lua book

["Michael Newberry" <mnewberry@...>]

Roberrt,

I did not mean to convey a suggestion that you should buy the book
necessarily in hard-cover format. (If we can save trees at the expense of
oil for the optical plastic in CDROM's, then I guess that's a fair trade!)
Sorry if my comment camse across that you should buy 20 books. On the other
hand, if each of your students could buy a CDROM at whatever price, then
that would be fine too. What I was and am saying is simply that there should
be an exchange of money for every single copy used, regardless of the
medium. If lua is "valuable", in that the students are getting "value" from
it, then isn't it fair that an expression of that value (e.g., money paid)
be made for each and every copy used?

Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Anderberg" <lua@anderberg.co.uk>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: Electronic version of the Lua book


> On Tuesday 13 April 2004 5:29 pm, Michael Newberry wrote:
> > Robert--- Maybe those 20+ people each need to buy a copy of the book as
> > part of the "cost of learning"?
> >
> > Michael
>
> I would gladly buy 20 CD-ROMS, and I would gladly contribute funds to the
Lua
> project, but buying 20 books seems a bit silly :)
>
> Bear in mind that I have been a Lua advocate for a long time, and that I
do
> own a copy of the book. I'm just now tackling a situation where a large
> number of people may need to be taught the language, some of those being
> non-programmers.
>
> I'm speaking from experience when I say that the information in the book
is
> vital to new Lua users understanding the language. I've taught quite a few
> people Lua in the past ad found that they didn't really "get it" until
they'd
> read the book from the website.
>
> I was thinking that maybe certain sections of the book, like parts of the
> Object Oriented and co-routines sections could be made available (I think
> roberto mentioned that an excerpt is available on a website), as I think
> those are two areas which people generally have trouble with.
>
> Rob
>