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"... Bad idea. NodeJS is too young to take a hardcopy picture of the APIs. It'll be outdated before its release. ..." I don't think printing a book is a bad id
by bootload 16y ago
"... Bad idea. NodeJS is too young to take a hardcopy picture of the APIs. It'll be outdated before its release. ..."
I don't think printing a book is a bad idea. After having a quick scan of the download & when I see "all I/O activities should be non-blocking" in Ch3 I already see value (think about the consequences in trying to use mysql drivers).
While the book might be out of date it's the concepts & ideas behind that might be valuable to "old" n00bs who might have dabbled in JavaScript and heard about Nodejs from their hacker mates. Youngsters would probably turn their nose at books & simply head to the web as you suggest :)
There is still a place for offline hardcopies to exist parallel to the online docs.