On May 16, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Ruby Freak wrote:

> Having a "Companion" web page with a wiki or blogger style discussion
> for each page would have been very helpful for me. I think the site
> would be self sustaining by the community just as this site is. In
> fact, I guess you could simply start a Google Group for each title/
> edition and users could simply create each topic as a page number,
> like "Page 268" and then readers could go to that discussion and
> search for it too.

These are good points. The PickAxe was never intended to teach  
programming, but it's hard to know just how much to assume.

For a companion site: each of our titles has it's own discussion  
forum, accessible via the book's home page (the link is under the  
cover picture). That might be a good place to organize that kind of  
community discussion.


Dave