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Home » Community » PR, media coverage, articles and documentation » Book: Getting started with the U++ Framework (End 2023 first U++ book will be published on Amazon)
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Sun, 09 July 2023 14:12  |
frederik.dumarey
Messages: 24
Registered: December 2021
Location: Belgium
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Hello,
Just to mention all of you that I'm currently writing a book about the U++ Framework.
It handles:
the web site,
the installation,
a full TheIDE coverage with all functions (also the layout and icon designers),
CtrlCore, CtrlLib, SQL, Turtle and Skylark detailed explanations based mostly upon existing examples,
some How to snippets for specific features (ZIP, SMTP, POP3, custom widgets, Lexical Parsing, ...),
reference guides for U++, C++20, SQL.
As we speak I'm reviewing the first part of the book (corrections and layout), it is A4 and counting 260 pages so far. I hope to have the manuscript ready and reviewed by the End of 2023. It will then be published on Amazon using Kindle services.
The main goal is to attract new people to use this beautiful framework, this should be easy, no? 
The only thing I'm still struggling with is the price. Please send me some ranges, what would you like to pay for such a book?
Thanks for any feedback,
Frederik.
Regards,
Frederik Dumarey
Belgium
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| Re: Book: Getting started with the U++ Framework [message #60022 is a reply to message #60015] |
Mon, 10 July 2023 22:40  |
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Klugier
Messages: 1076
Registered: September 2012
Location: Poland, Kraków
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Hello Frederik,
It would be good to have a book about U++ framework. I wish you good luck in your journey of writing the first one. I would personally see the chapter about U++ history. The framework exists for almost 20 years, and there are a lot of things to tell. In the past, I wrote master thesis about Android Builder and I wrote a chapter about U+++ history. I based it on questions I asked to Mirek on Skype. Also, if you could mentioned somewhere in the book me, I would be grateful. Also, you can send the book to review. I will probably do not find a time for reading everything, but I will definitely find a time to look at some parts.
Also, we will be grateful if you could help with our documentation. The contribution in this area is easy, you can modify .tpp file from TheIDE level and provide changes via pull request on GitHub. Simple and powerful. Also, if your contribution will be valuable, you will be present in credits section of TheIDE. It is certainly something to be proud of 
Few guidelines on my side:
- Use Ultimate++ only in historical context, for all other cases use U++. We need to make sure that new branding is in place.
- In case of prices, please make sure that the price will vary basing on region. There are some countries that are rich and they are countries that are not so rich. People in countries that are not so rich should be able to buy your book. So, I assume that the price 10 € or even less is more accurate in such cases.
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Klugier
U++ - one framework to rule them all.
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| Re: Book: Getting started with the U++ Framework [message #60079 is a reply to message #60022] |
Tue, 08 August 2023 14:33 |
BetoValle
Messages: 203
Registered: September 2020
Location: Brasil Valinhos SP
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Hi,
good tip about evaluating price by country. For example in my , Brazil, it would be in the range of 20€ - 30€
and I believe that for each chapter, you should put 1 "basic" reference link on "what it is intended for" said library, precisely so that the reader feels welcomed. Note that the U++ ide is not for every user. I believe you can build a bridge by taking the reader's side to reach your goal.
U++ is an excellent ide, open source and has its strong point focused on Desktop, Web development. For those who have a company and want to get rid of expensive ide's like Delphi, Visual Studio is an excellent solution.
Very good initiative and good work!
"If you want to meet someone, study!"
Tks!
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| Re: Book: Getting started with the U++ Framework [message #60399 is a reply to message #60397] |
Sat, 30 December 2023 22:20 |
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Klugier
Messages: 1076
Registered: September 2012
Location: Poland, Kraków
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Hello EspressoMan,
Thank you for your feedback in the context of documentation! I decided to improve our documentation site a little bit to accelerate navigation by adding a table of contents and adding numeration to the headers. Now, it should be much easier to find the documentation for the package of interest. Here is the updated documentation website from the development build:
The changes related to the website will be available tomorrow. Please let me know what you think about these changes and if they improve your experience. Also, if you have any valuable feedback, please share it with us. We have limited resources, but maybe there is something we can do.
So, my question to you is:
- How can we improve the experience of early adopters? What exactly is missing, or what is difficult to do?
- What are your recommendations? Any ideas or mockups are welcome.
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For your remarks about QT, please noticed that they have several permanent employees that only work on documentation. Competing with the is out of scope now. However, we can catch up with the help of the community. Please keep in mind that contribution to documentation is easy. Just modify .tpp file and create PR to our main repository.
Klugier
U++ - one framework to rule them all.
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