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benzeman wrote:

Hello,

I'm Ben, and I'm writing a book called The Unofficial Raspberry Pi Manual. Towards the end of the book will be two sections, each twelve pages long, containing tutorials for Scratch ...

If anyone here is willing to help out, please drop me an email on [removed for quote], or ...

Many thanks 

Ben

You just gave out your personal info.

sparks wrote:

Hi Benzeman, welcome to Scratch!

The Scratch Team and community Moderators on the Scratch forums want to make sure that Scratch is a safe place for children of all ages to be, and part of the rules we have there is not sharing personal information, including emails.

I think its great that you're working on a Raspberry Pi manual, its a cool piece of kit and I'm sure that you'll receive tons of help with the Scratch section of it by posting a thread in the Collaberations forum! As long as conversation is kept on these forums that's fine. 

I've moved this thread over to Collaberations for you. 

Thanks for moving this thread! I think the first thing I need to ask is - what should the tutorial cover? I've got 12 pages, which I think would work best in 6 "sections", each section being a two-page spread.

So, I guess for now I need 6 mini-tutorials, which would hopefully take somebody from not knowing what scratch is to being able to start writing games and stuff.

The current "work in progress" version of the manual is https://www.dropbox.com/s/rkrboq3i7tee64c/final.pdf.

Does anyone have any idea on how to share the "raw content" (maximum resolution pictures, text, etc)? I'm using dropbox for everything, but that obviously requires sharing email addresses - not sure if this is OK by PM, or an absolute no-no throughout the forum?

Many thanks,

Ben

undefeatedgames wrote:

Just curious, do we get paid for it? Are you putting the book on Amazon? Thanks!

Sorry, I'm not paying anyone. The book will be given away for free as a PDF from r314.org.uk.

I'm also going to sell copies of the book on a "not-for-profit" basis, controlling all the distribution etc myself. If I end up making any profit it'll either get donated back to The Raspberry Pi Foundation, or I'll use it to give away copies of the manual to kids who really need it (although the black and white version will be really cheap from the looks of things). Either way, I'm not going to make money out of this!