December 2002
Beginner
478 pages
17h 55m
English
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Acknowledgments
This book is dedicated to my wife, Jill, to my parents, Bob and Paula, to my sister Erin, and to Grammy Alice.
Thanks to everyone at O’Reilly, especially editor Nathan Torkington, editorial assistant Tatiana Diaz, and illustrator Jessamyn Read. Thanks also to Brian Jepson, who was instrumental in goading me to start (and finish) writing books.
I’d like to thank all my friends and co-workers at AS220, including Jonathan Wisehart. Several artists allowed me to use their work in some of the examples herein: thanks to Jill for the characters and Pam Murray for the photos in Chapter 1, Sue Riddle for the illustrations in Chapter 3, Scotty “Blue Bunny” Grabell for photos in Chapter 5 and Chapter 12, Bob Arellano for the “The first time I rode into Providence . . . ” project, Keith Munslow for various drawings, and Jonathan Thomas for letting me use his head throughout.
A prestigious group of technical reviewers took a lot of time to help us remove all of (well, most of) the typos, technical goofs, and boldfaced lies from the text: Gregory Baumgardner, Aaron Straup Cope, Ben Evans, David Hand, Steve Jenkins, Joe Kline, Steve Marvell, and Simon Wistow. Thanks to Steve Marvell in particular for his thorough and pointed criticism. A number of people took the time to offer suggestions, corrections, and patches to the previous edition of this book. They are: Harmen Bussemaker, Jeremy Fowler, Shane Geiger, Susan Malveau, Ricardo Muggli, Faisal Nasim, Maurits Rijk, Greg Roelofs, ...
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