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Main forum => FAQ => Topic started by: MrTAToad on 2010-Oct-17
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All of my GLBasic books are free (and have been for a while now), and consist of :
- Programmers Reference Manual. Based on the original BigSofty (and Gernot Frisch) text, it was updated and expanded to include all commands, types and all other GLBasic areas
- Cookbooks. These are collections of routines that I have written over the years
- IDE User Guide. How to use the IDE
- DDgui User Guide. How to use DDgui
I'll be making all of these available at free-ebooks.net later on. Whilst these are all in the forums (somewhere), it is hard to find!
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HI, MRTatoad, this is very cool, I have a similar idea but in Spaninh.
Good luck whit the books.
Best Reards,
Iván J.
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A spanish manual would be great. But it's an awful lot of work.
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If you want the text to convert to Spanish, French, German or Esperanto, I can supply the original English version...
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Lulu is doing a discount for 1st November only - 25% off...
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Well, I have a little plans for make a Spanish book, of Glbasic, but how I don´t be a proffesional programmer, perhaps I don´t be a good work.
How I say looking this possibility, and if I fell whit forces for write a book, I think I start in begin the next year.
Best Regards,
Iván J.
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Fair enough :)
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will probably buy two of them, pdf format...nice job!
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Thanks for the awesome books MrTAToad! They serve as invaluable references. I just bought them all in .pdf format. I suggest anyone who is serious about GLBasic development and wants to delve deeper, also buys them. They are ridiculously cheap in contrary to what they offer! Keep up the good work. You got yourself a supporter and Tenebra Studios will as of now be using your books to deliver even better products!
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Glad you like them!
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Hi Mrtatoad, only a little counsil. Have 2 books on LULU, I don´t rebenber whats, when you pick, for show the content of the book, don´t apperars nothing, I think this can be a back step for buy anyone of these 2 books.
Kinds Regards,
Iván J.
Ps: The programmer´s guide is very very useful, and is explained fantastically clear. Thanks for this great job
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The preview is something that Lulu takes care of - and they do all seem to be working okay
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The price of the GLBasic Programmer's Reference Guide is 28x more in print. I want that book but that price for print, for now, is a bit indulgent.
Would you get more money from someone buying the printed version or is that just the cost of the printing?
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I get slightly more for print copies than downloads, but there is a high starting price for those anyway unfortunately.
Just for today, there is 20% off the price of the Programmers Reference Guide, so its now £70.80
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Well, you could always order 2 copies of the eBook! =D
Saves you way more money than the printed copy, and more profit goes to MrTAToad! :booze:
Read one copy, and keep the other in mint condition. :whistle:
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:) Or I could get the 3 ebook set, use them until they fall to pieces and then get the printed versions.
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heh :)
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Well, the Second Edition of the GLBasic Programmers Reference Guide is here!
385 pages of GLBasic goodness all for the low, low price of £78.82 (91 Euros) for the paper version, or £4.41 for the download version or even £6.91 for the eBook one
EBook cover :
(http://static.lulu.com/product/ebook/glbasic-programmers-reference-guide---second-edition/15777123/thumbnail/detail)
Paperback cover :
(http://static.lulu.com/product/paperback/glbasic-programmers-reference-guide-%28second-edition%29/15843143/thumbnail/320)
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Hi :)
Just want to know, what is the different between this one :
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/glbasic-programmers-reference-guide-%28second-edition%29/16247908?productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_77336741_ (http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/glbasic-programmers-reference-guide-%28second-edition%29/16247908?productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_77336741_)
and this one :
http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/glbasic-programmers-reference-guide---second-edition/15936656?productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_77336741_ (http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/glbasic-programmers-reference-guide---second-edition/15936656?productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_77336741_)
Attention ! I know that there is a printed book version, but here, these two products are ticked "file download", so I wonder what's the difference :) (the price is different too).
Thank you for your support.
Because same title, and they are both ebook or "file download" so what's the difference ?
thank you in advance :)
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The second one is an eBook, and isn't quite as up-to-date as the book (which is also available for download).
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Ok so,
I have to buy one and if I understand what you say, I have to buy this one :
http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/glbasic-programmers-reference-guide-%28second-edition%29/16247908?productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_77336741_
Right ?
Other question : Is there some sources files available with the book download file ? I don't know because we don't have any details on this :)
Thx in advance.
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Yes, thats the one to get. The downloads are just PDF version of the book, so contains exactly the same stuff, including source code.
Hope you find it useful!
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Just buy it :)
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Just starting out with GLBasic this week. Bought the book; so far I'm really enjoying it!
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Hi MrTAToad.
I have bought all your books in February.
Can you have a list of changes made to the second edition?
On the LULU site I saw that there are two versions of "GLBasic Programmers Reference Guide - Second Edition"
GLBasic Programmers Reference Guide (Second Edition) (http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/glbasic-programmers-reference-guide-(second-edition)/16247908?productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_77336741_)
GLBasic Programmers Reference Guide - Second Edition (http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/glbasic-programmers-reference-guide---second-edition/15936656?productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_77336741_)
This can confuses the buyers (in the preview I saw that the second link is the revision 4.0.0.1 and the first is the revision 4.0.0.2).
I have not yet had time to read the first edition, think you that it is better to upgrade to the second edition?
Do you think that is possible to have a discount code to purchase the second edition?
Thanks ;)
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As stated in the "Buy book" button - the latter link is an eBook (for some devices), whilst the former is paperback and download (for all devices). There is no real descriptive difference between them, except the former will only work on some devices (of which I know not).
There was a discount for the second edition, probably around 2 to 3 months ago :)
The list of changes is too extensive to list, but incorporates all the new webOS and Android stuff...
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Thanks for the reply.
I will buy the new version (hoping there is not a new one coming soon :P)
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Haven't got plans for any more!
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Ok! Thank you for your answer. :nw:
Now I proceed with the order of the updated version :good:.
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Buy two or more, and give some to your friends! :)
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I paid three books, the second edition, and I'm jealous, I will not give these books to anyone, I must first study :nana:
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The programmer´s guide are fabolous, you can see, in a few days you can make a little things, past 1 moth, you will come a little expert :).
The books are explained, simply perfect, and contains all the info for make any kind of program game, or what you can do.
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Hope you like them!
Just to let you know that Lulu are migrating all downloads to ePub books for some strange reason - the PRG has already had it converted, and the rest will happen towards the end of September.
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I think that this conversion is intended to allow the reading of books direclty on eBook readers.
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Indeed - its a shame though...
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By the way, if you buy a book (or download), don't forget to write a review and rate it :)
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I bought all three of them. I guess I should probably read them at some point. ;)
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Now available is the GLBasic 2012 calender, for a snip at £13
Featuring some of the graphics used in the Android/Apple/Palm Catalog/marketplace threads for each month, there are bits of information for some dates as well.
Now available from the Lulu store : http://www.lulu.com/product/calendar/my-calendar/18622820
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Nice go, Hit the deck gets february hehe! ;)
I must be featured on next one.
One thing is that you could also collect some work in progress/sketches of games to fill it up too.
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All the months have been filled up :)
Could always do another one so people have a choice :D
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Nice selection of GLB games in there :)
How come you didn't put Spots in there?
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Didn't really have any decent screenshots of it - although I may do another one and include it there...
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I meant a picture per day hehe ;/
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Dont have that option unfortunately...
For a short time you can get 15% off when you buy from Lulu - see the main website for the promo code.
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The final book of the year is a collection of routines that I have written over the years.
As usual it's available as an eBook (£3.95 - http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/programming-cookbook/12099685) and paperback (£28.35 - http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/programming-cookbook/18658770)
(http://static.lulu.com/product/ebook/programming-cookbook/18658824/thumbnail/320)
(http://static.lulu.com/product/paperback/programming-cookbook/18658770/thumbnail/320)
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It might be worth posting the table of contents to the description, so you don't "buy a cat in a sack".
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Yes, it's something I need to add...
There are some other bits I need to add as well too...
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For those thinking about getting one of my books or calender, the last shipping dates are here :
http://connect.lulu.com/t5/Shipping/Shipping-Times-and-Options/ta-p/33707
And a totally unbiased review of the Reference Guide, by someone I may or may not know, can be found here : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1447729870 :whistle:
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I couldn't possibly comment :P
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I added a link to the "shop" page of the main homepage.
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Great - thanks!
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Any other buying options or sites? Lulu has no books of that name.
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Lulu seems very expensive for printed versions - there must be cheaper self-printing 3rd parties nowadays...?
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Thanks for using my Cover for the book MrT... :good:
I think I bought all the books , the problem was I know about they after one year using GLBasic, I think was needed more Marketing becuase I discovered the books casually..
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The books are now free, dont forget - they are in this post : http://www.glbasic.com/forum/index.php?topic=5142.15 (http://www.glbasic.com/forum/index.php?topic=5142.15) and here https://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/GLBasic-Programmers-Reference-Guide-Second-Edition (https://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/GLBasic-Programmers-Reference-Guide-Second-Edition)
Your cover was great by the way!
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Maybe you should edit the startpost, so users can find that books faster.
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Releasing on Kindle would also help GLB exposure
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Dont have a Kindle!
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Can also release on google´s playstore.
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Not available at the moment!
Have to wait a few days for the books to be accepted - hopefully they all will be!
All the books are available on free-ebooks.net. At the moment, they haven't been indexed, so searching may not find them yet. So here are the links :
http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/DDgui-Programmers-Reference-Guide (http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/DDgui-Programmers-Reference-Guide)
http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Programming-Cookbook-I (http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Programming-Cookbook-I)
http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Programming-Cookbook-II (http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Programming-Cookbook-II)
http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Programming-Cookbook-III (http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Programming-Cookbook-III)
http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Programming-Cookbook-IV (http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/Programming-Cookbook-IV)
http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/GLBasic-Programmers-Reference-Guide-Second-Edition (http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/GLBasic-Programmers-Reference-Guide-Second-Edition)