[Maya-Python] [Book] Practical Maya Programming with Python

[Marcus Ottosson]

Looks interesting and was just released.

http://www.packtpub.com/practical-maya-programming-with-python/book

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Marcus Ottosson
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[Justin Israel]

Let me know if it ends up being good.

I can't stand that Packt Publishing company and refuse to support their products. They have a practice of going around hunting for anybody with at least one keyword matching a subject they want to cover, regardless of the target persons actual experience. They have asked me to write books on topics for which I have no knowledge.
This one time they asked me to write a book on Qt, and I said that I probably didn't have enough time, and also didn't want to compete with the already amazing books by Mark Summerfield that would be better than what I could do anyways. So then a couple weeks later this guy emails me that I had helped out on StackOverflow, when he was just learning how to design a table view. He said he was really excited that Packt had just contacted him about writing a book on Qt.

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[Tim Fowler]

I was interested when Marcus posted the link...and then a bit less when Justin mentioned his experience with them...and then interested again when I read that the author is the guy who started tech-artists.org.  He did make a comment in his blog that he's learned a thing or two about choosing the wrong publisher so that kind of matches what Justin mentioned.  Will have to grab a copy to keep around the office.

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[Justin Israel]

Oh cool. Thanks for confirming that, Tim. Good to know that they did manage to find a qualified person for this topic. I didn't mean to discourage anyone from buying the book. Only that you should be wary when they are from this publisher. I'm glad to see that the author identified Packt as being a sub-par company on his blog. I imagine it would be extremely frustrating to put so much time and effort into the enormous challenge of writing a book, only to have the company you are doing it for handle it poorly. 

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