Blinkdagger joins The MathWorks Book Program
30 Apr 2009 Quan Quach 5 comments 295 views
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In early March, we submitted an application to The MathWorks Book Program in hopes that The MathWorks would lend their support on a book project that we had in mind. On April 3rd, we received an e-mail from the The MathWorks Book Program that accepted our application!
What exactly is The MathWorks Book Program?
The MathWorks Book Program is a collaborative effort between writers and The MathWorks. In this program, The MathWorks provides their support to writers who are planning on writing a book based on MATLAB®, Simulink®, or other MathWorks™ products. The MathWorks facilitates the book-writing process so that writers can focus on developing their book, and less time worrying about adminstrative issues
What is the Book going to be about?
We haven’t quite yet finalized what the book will be about, but there is a good chance that it will focus on creating and developing GUIs. A lot of the feedback we have received from our GUI tutorials have been favorable, and we field a fair amount of questions regarding GUI design. If anyone has any thoughts they would like to share, we’d love to hear them.
When will the Book be finished?
Since this is the first time that we’ve taken on such a project, we have no idea how long the process will take. My initial thought was that it would take 9 months. I have no idea if that is too little time, or if it is too much. Only time will tell. We will certainly provide updates on how the book is progressing!
Hey, I want to Write a Book Too!
If you’re planning on writing a book, or have some good ideas about a book that you might want to write, you should check out the Book Program.
5 Responses to “Blinkdagger joins The MathWorks Book Program”
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I have to say the book program is great. I used it to get my first copy of MATLAB when I wrote my first book. Not only that, but I made contact with Naomi (show still works here), and she is the one that turned my resume in to HR and that helped to eventually get me my job here!
-Doug
Solo author- undergrad
http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Mechanics-Using-MATLAB-Materials/dp/0138640343
Wrote the MATLAB CD- grad school
http://www.amazon.com/Mechanics-Materials-Anthony-M-Bedford/dp/0201895528/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241183781&sr=1-2
Updated for newest MATLAB- grad school
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-MATLAB-6-Delores-Etter/dp/0130328456
CONGRATS QUAN!
This is fantastic news. Let me know if I can help out at all.
Rob
The MathWorks book program sounds as a unique and useful program.
I am sure that there are many excellent MATLAB gurus who do have vast amount of knowledge and they would be happy to start pulling a good resource book of some sort together but they feel alone and perhaps they don’t even know where to start.
Nevertheless, the benefits of this program are two-fold though. It serves our - and here I mean the green novice guys - benefits too as we might be lucky to see even better Matlab and Simulink books written by real experts!
@Doug, You wrote a book while you were in undergrad?! Impressive!
@Rob, thanks for your support man! I’m sure we can squeeze a couple chapters about textscan into the book!
@CroAxis, the program is a pretty good deal, except now I feel the pressure to deliver a good book!
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