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As ive said its well worded and easy to follow... and i am a fairly fresh newbie compared to most in this forum...... i am learning many things i didnt know, working through it slowly, and playing with variations. i can see short cuts i could have used to build my app better and cleaner too.
I could see how auto correct would do weird stuff. the publisher could just run a spell checker but things like Grammar could be missed like the "No" or "Now".
With the technical stuff, even if you were an experienced coder, just reading the code and not running the code, its easy to miss things like "." or ":". Even in my "day job" id could spend an hour coding then compile only to find many typos causing it to not run.
Im happy to review anyones books, but keep in mind i only have limited time after to work to play
http://artleeapps.com/
Bubble Adventure - Colors
And my comment was trying to explain to @ArtLeeApps about the process. Plus the fact that many of the errors creep in due to Auocorrect, computers, accidental keystrokes and the worst of them all, when your brain like your computer gets laggy (at odd hours of the night)
Author of Learn Lua for iOS Game Development from Apress ( http://www.apress.com/9781430246626 )
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Author of Learn Lua for iOS Game Development from Apress ( http://www.apress.com/9781430246626 )
Cool Vizify Profile at https://www.vizify.com/oz-apps
Doing spell check would have been a terrible use of my time (someone else can do it better and cheaper).
Basically if you pay someone to do something, you want to put "experts" in their field (expert is too strong but you get the idea. Someone who knows a little more on the topic than others) and tell them not to care about anything else.
As you can tell I was not contacted for my english speaking abilities
That's the editor's work to have someone look at this.
But I agree with @OZApps that it's important to have someone go through every code sample. The publisher has to coordinate all reviewer's abilities.
On my side, I stated right from the start that I didn't have time to test the code but would focus on other areas to provide feedback.
you mean you want to see errata for book on a website?
There can a link from here somewhere, and also on the download page on packt.
As it is my first book, I currently have no idea how it is handled, especially as it might differ from publisher to publisher, but let me contact them and check
Although we have taken every care to ensure the accuracy of our content, mistakes do happen. If you find a mistake in one of our books—maybe a mistake in the text or the code—we would be grateful if you would report this to us.
By doing so, you can save other readers from frustration and help us improve subsequent versions of this book. If you find any errata, please report them by visiting http://www.packtpub.com/submit-errata, selecting your book, clicking on the errata submission formlink, and entering the details of your errata.
Once your errata are verified, your submission will be accepted and the errata will be uploaded on our website, or added to any list of existing errata, under the Errata section of that title.
Any existing errata can be viewed by selecting your title from http://www.packtpub.com/support.
@ArtLeeApps will you do the honor of being the first to errata my book
Thanks for the open door to post away... Im posting at the errata submission site now.
It will save me annoying yous posting them here :-bd
http://artleeapps.com/
Bubble Adventure - Colors
They wanted me to make the definitive Corona SDK book, and I ended refusing, first because they are messy (they sent me e-mails in seemly random times, forgot to reply e-mails, different workers tried to contact me without talking between themselves...), and second because the contract terms were just outright terrible (and badly written, I mean, monies, seriously?)
I wonder if you somehow figured how to convince them to make a good contract or something.
"Monkey Game Development: Beginners guide" is the title I wrote for them. I had a similar experience with them, but went through it. At first I had a nice project editor from England. After they moved everything to India, the process went downhill. Constantly changing editors, broken chapter files, rude editors, etc etc. Their technical editors screwed up formating and didn't check for grammar and spelling whatsoever, which I thought would be the case.
After the book was published, they didn't do any marketing besides a one time mentioning in their own newsletter. I was asked to do it all myself. I constanly have to remind them for the quarterly sales stats but I doubt I will see anymore money besides the advance I got.
If they ever want me to write for them again, then they have to pay much much more. :-)
The good thing is, I send them some corrections of the code files as an errata and I got a free ebook for it. I am not sure if they do that with everyone who sends erratas to them.
My technical reviewer experience with APress was awesome. Very friendly, understanding and supporting. To bad, I had to quit after a while but it still was a great experience. They also pay for technical reviewing too. Packt just offers you a copy of the book.
im enjoying those of the train trips to/from work
Likes: MikeHart
http://artleeapps.com/
Bubble Adventure - Colors
Their dead lines really helped me keep moving forward, the editing was not painful at all, and I had really great technical editor, with whom we still are in contact and chatting from time to time.
About marketing, now there is a marketing specialist assigned to the book, and we are discussing marketing strategies and communities which can be approached.
Of course there are a lot of work I need to do myself, which Packt does not offer, as for example, creating a website for a book:
http://giderosgamedevelopment.com
Or writing guest blog posts, etc. But it is the marketing specialist, who is consulting and coming up with ideas, and arranging reviews and blog posts.
Maybe Packt came a great way after that time, don't know
http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Chance-to-win-a-copy-of-Gideros-Mobile-Game-Development
Likes: OZApps
http://bluebilby.com/2013/12/04/book-review-gideros-mobile-game-development/
Likes: mysps
http://BlueBilby.com/
And added it on the book's website:
http://giderosgamedevelopment.com/news/Book-review-on-BlueBilbycom
Likes: WauloK
http://BlueBilby.com/
http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Chance-to-win-a-copy-of-Gideros-Mobile-Game-Development
Learning to make apps with Gideros http://reviewme.oz-apps.com/2013/12/learning-to-make-apps-with-gideros.html
Author of Learn Lua for iOS Game Development from Apress ( http://www.apress.com/9781430246626 )
Cool Vizify Profile at https://www.vizify.com/oz-apps
http://giderosgamedevelopment.com/news/Book-review-on-OZAppscom