Smudgy Residues

January 26th 15:10
by why

Oh nice, you can now preview the chapters for The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and matz. I did some pencil drawings for each chapter. At left, the demure lady stork for chapter four on “Expressions and Operators.” Really glad David asked me to help and that he gave me plenty of room to draw all my favorite sorts of things.


And, also, demimismo is offering a peek at some of the stuff inside Nobody Knows Shoes. On March 1st, the book will be out in PDF and HTML for you to freely share and print and do with as you please. It’ll be a revised edition with some updates and a few extra pages, yeah.


Now begin the comments …

5 comments

Serhei

said on January 27th 19:19

Sad, the lengths you have to go to to get children to sit down and to start hacking. One would wish it didn’t involve kidnapping, demons, or whoever those people in the illustration are.

bug

said on January 28th 23:31

I have written the quadratic formula in FORTH! This is of absolutely no import to a discussion on Shoes or the exposition thereof unto children!

: QUADSOLVE ( a b c -- x1 x2 ) ROT DUP ROT 4 * * ROT DUP DUP * ROT - SQRT DUP ROT DUP ROT + SWAP ROT - ROT 2 * DUP ROT SWAP / ROT ROT / SWAP

failrate

said on January 29th 01:26

Heh, I love that picture. It’s one of my favorite bits in Nobody Knows Shoes.

I was so inspired by the Shoes book, I made a web browser:

Shoes + Hpricot + OpenURI = Sneaker

虫

said on January 29th 09:52

その絵の形勢は怖くて苦しい！

Brian

said on January 31st 14:24

I just opened my copy of the book–the artwork looks great on the printed page.

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