Mobile Python: Rapid Prototyping of Applications on the Mobile Platform

Authors' Acknowledgments

We'd like to express our gratitude to all the people who played a part in developing this book. First, we'd like to thank the editors that worked on this project: Satu McNabb at Symbian; Hannah Clement, Andrew Kennerley and Rosie Kemp at Wiley; and Shena Deuchars at Mitcham Editorial. We'd also like to thank Wiley and Symbian, in general, for supporting this book project. We are glad to be part of it.

Thanks also to everyone who took part in the early review of this book: Joe McCarthy, Panos Asproulis, Mark Shackman, Tim Ocock, Timo Ojala and Jukka Laurila, who also contributed Appendix A.

And for creating such an enjoyable and useful thing as Python for S60, we thank Jukka Laurila, the mastermind behind Python for S60 at Nokia, as well as Erik Smartt and Kari Pulli who greatly supported its bringing it to life. We owe an especially large debt to Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, for this beautiful and fun language, and the growing Python for S60 community for their engagement and contributions to the mobile space.

We are grateful also to Joe McCarthy for the fruitful discussions we had and writing an executive book summary for us. A big thanks goes to Tomi Silander for his experiments, source code and information on robotics using Roombas and Python for S60.

Finally, we want to thank Harri Pennanen, for helping to spread the knowledge about Python for S60 to universities around the globe and his great managerial support for realizing Manhattan ...