Getting Started With Ledger - a free (upcoming) introductory book on Ledger

[Rolf Schröder]

Dear All,

my 2015's resolution was to write a small book about Ledger that I call "Getting Started With Ledger". The book is an introduction to Ledger's base functionalities and also describes of my personal Ledger workflow. I have decoupled my actual private data from the scripts/environment I use to handle it and made the latter publicly available. This allows any new user  to use Ledger without starting from scratch. It took me quite some time to get a polished working environment which I believe other people could take inspiration from.

The book covers:

- The basics of (double entry) accounting.
- Installing & running basic Ledger.
- Setting up a fully automatic environment for production use.
- Integrating external data (CSV from banks etc.) into the journal.
- Generating the usual reports about one's financial situation automatically.
- Advanced topics like automated transactions (briefly).

The book will be freely available. I would love to have some feedback before providing it to the general public. Mainly because I would like to make sure things work in other other environments. But of course also to find some typos ;)

Contact me via rolf dot schr at gmail dot com and I'll send you a copy. The code presented in the book is already available here https://github.com/rolfschr/GSWL-ecosystem.

Best,
Rolf

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Rolf Schröder <rolf...@gmail.com> writes:

> Contact me via rolf dot schr at gmail dot com and I'll send you a copy. The
> code presented in the book is already available here
> https://github.com/rolfschr/GSWL-ecosystem.

I would love a copy, and to help you review it!

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[Alexandre Rademaker]

1+! Maybe a collaborative effort like the HoTT (http://homotopytypetheory.org/2013/06/20/the-hott-book/)?!  ;-)

Best,

Alexandre Rademaker

http://arademaker.github.com/

http://researcher.ibm.com/person/br-alexrad

[Simon Michael]

On 1/23/16 8:57 AM, Rolf Schröder wrote:
> The book will be freely available. I would love to have some feedback
> before providing it to the general public. Mainly because I would like to
> make sure things work in other other environments. But of course also to
> find some typos ;)

How exciting! I would be glad to review it. si...@joyful.com.

[Ben Finney]

Rolf Schröder <rolf...@gmail.com>
writes:

> Contact me via rolf dot schr at gmail dot com and I'll send you a copy. The
> code presented in the book is already available here
> https://github.com/rolfschr/GSWL-ecosystem.

I am just this year Getting Started with Ledger myself, so I'd love to
be a reviewer. <ben+l...@benfinney.id.au>

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[Phil Gee]

Great! A book on Ledger! If you need another guy for a review: philip...@gmail.com.

[Alexis]

Hello Rolf,
I'll gladly help reviewing the book and would be interested in a copy too.

Cheers,
Alexis

[Jostein Berntsen]

Great stuff, I am also in for reviewing the book. jbe...@broadpark.no

Jostein

[Sasha Bauer]

I'd also be interested in reviewing it!

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[JBash]

I'd be interested in a copy, and would like to help in reviewing it also,

Cheers,

Jerry

[Rolf Schröder]

Dear All,

I've had far more people contacting me than expected! I was happy to get some positive feedback, too.
The book is now online and available for everyone to download from here:

https://github.com/rolfschr/GSWL-book

I'll hope you enjoy it :)

Best,
Rolf

[Simon Michael]

Hurrah! Thank you Rolf.

All: I've tweeted this on LedgerTips. Feel free to retweet, or discuss
on twitter (remember to include the #ledgercli hash tag).

[Jostein Berntsen]

On 07.02.16,10:35, Rolf Schröder wrote:
>Dear All,
>

>I've had far more people contacting me than expected! I was happy to get
>some positive feedback, too.
>The book is now online and available for everyone to download from here:
>
>https://github.com/rolfschr/GSWL-book
>
>I'll hope you enjoy it :)
>
>Best,
>Rolf

This book is very good. It's useful to have this documenation of
ledger presented in an easy to read format. Should it be linked to from
http://www.ledger-cli.org/ and https://github.com/ledger/ledger/wiki?

Do you plan to add more stuff? (It's also an interesting use of date
in chapter 3.4.1: Jan 1st 2042) :)


Jostein

[Rolf Schröder]

Hi Jostein,

Thank you very much. Currently, I don't plan to add more content
although contributions are (and were!) welcome. You can link to it from
wherever you want :)

Best,
Rolf

[Richard Gott]

Dear Rolf

I too would very much like a copy. 
Best wishes

Richard

Prof R Gott

[Rolf Schröder]

Hi Richard,

you can download the PDF from here

https://github.com/rolfschr/GSWL-book/releases

Best,
Rolf

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[richard....@gmail.com]

Many thanks. As a relative new boy on the block this has already solved several problems. I have some way to go I suspect.

Richard

Prof R Gott
Emeritus Professor, Durham University, UK

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-------- Original Message --------
From:Rolf Schröder
Sent:Mon, 08 May 2017 19:40:04 +0100
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Subject:Re: Getting Started With Ledger - a free (upcoming) introductory book on Ledger

Hi Richard,

you can download the PDF from here

https://github.com/rolfschr/GSWL-book/releases

Best,
Rolf