[FM Discuss] [support-gang] The Complete Idiot's Guide to Raising Your IQ, Solving All Deployments (and Creating GREAT Sugar Activities!)

[Janet Swisher]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Jim Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm currently working on a FLOSS Manual to help new programmers to create
> Sugar Activities.  I'm hoping that the book will be read by older children
> as well as people who have done a little programming before.  The original
> title I suggested, "Beginner's Guide to Creating Sugar Activities", seems to
> be too long to look good in the HTML.  The title Adam Holt suggested (see
> subject) isn't any better.  Plus I'm not writing for complete idiots, I'm
> writing for children.

In addition, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to" is a trademarked series
from Penguin (http://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/cig/index.html).

> My models for this book are the great Alfred P. Morgan's books on radio and
> electronics.  By the end of his books you weren't an electronics engineer,
> but you had built a radio or two and had learned quite a bit.
>
> I'm leaning towards the title "Making Sugar Activities" unless someone comes
> up with something better.

It could have a picture of rock candy on the cover. That was my
favorite sugar-making activity as a kid :-)

While I don't think the appearance in HTML should be the prime
consideration for a title, "Making Sugar Activities" is concise and
gets the point across. "Creating Sugar Activities" might be somewhat
less prone to people mis-parsing it.

--Janet