Any college professors out there might be able to help me?

[ixl]

I was just wondering if there are any folks out there who teach a technical subject at the college level who might be willing to provide me with some assistance. I need to get some input on a couple of matters related to my work on a technical reference book. It won't take very much of your time, and I can do it by phone as that would be faster.

I am willing to reimburse you for your time if you go easy on me. :) Please email me and let me know your credentials and how much you would want for an hour of consultation.

If you know someone who might be able to help, please feel free to pass this on.

Thanks.

Charles

[jabarnutcase]

Ha! Had you guys fooled huh? (No, I'm not a College professor...Bet you never would have guessed) :rolleyes:

However, my son is a Sophomore in College with a Major in Computer Engineering, and he will be going back to School from vacation Monday. (Horray!) :D
I will talk to him about leading some of his professors in this direction.
I also agree that getting it published in Book form would be great. Not only for the reasons mentioned in the other threads, but I can see it being an excellent College textbook from the samples I've seen.

I've shown my son some of the sample pages of the The TCP/IP Guide, and we're both astounded at the scope of the project. 1546 pages is amazing and you are certainly to be commended for your hard work on such an enormous project.
Lastly Charles , I must apologize I haven't commented or contacted you earlier....I have so much reading material I'm in the middle of at the moment, I've hesitated to request the entire guide right now.

At any rate, keep your spirits up. I am SURE this will be a successful venture once the word gets out, and we will do our best to see that it does.
Maybe it's about time I emailed Leo Laporte from TechTV. :D

(Edit) Sorry, it just occurred to me that your request for assistance for a "technical reference book" may be yet another project....Geesh- Do you ever sleep? :p
My reply may have belonged in one of the other threads, but you get the picture. ;)

[ixl]

Jabar, thanks for the kind response. I really appreciate it. And please don't apologize for anything; this Guide is my whole life right now but I don't expect it to be others'! --c

[Pachomius2000]

Originally posted by ixl
I was just wondering if there are any folks out there who teach a technical subject at the college level who might be willing to provide me with some assistance. I need to get some input on a couple of matters related to my work on a technical reference book. It won't take very much of your time, and I can do it by phone as that would be faster.

I am willing to reimburse you for your time if you go easy on me. :) Please email me and let me know your credentials and how much you would want for an hour of consultation.

If you know someone who might be able to help, please feel free to pass this on.

Thanks.

Charles

I am glad to meet you, the author of PC Guide. Thanks for the generous servings of information and advice you make available to people like me who are not computer savvies.

Please, if you feel turned-off by the way I write, consider the things I am going to say as coming from the typical man-in-the-street, namely, the masses who are not adequately informed and are not possessed of good cerebral matters.

1. Always imagine that you are talking to a child with limited vocabulary when you explain computer things; so use very concrete references, like common things at home and in the office, to illustrate the point you are trying to make.

2. Be very free with pictures and put a circle around the object you are concerned with in the picture. As the saying goes, a picture speaks a thousand words.

3. Don't explain one unknown with another unknown; for example, telling people asking what is URL that it stands for universal resource locator or uniform resource locator. Up to now I don't know about URL's, I just looked it up now in my instant dictionary, and you see, I am still left without any inkling.

4. When you describe a process your reader is to follow to arrive at an effect or purpose, you should tell them already what they can expect to happen at every step and at the final point of arrival; so that they will know if things are turning out correctly, or they are getting the procedure wrong, or their software and hardware do no or cannot execute that kind of a process.

Also read my posts here, they are less than 20, and maybe you will write to more effective profits for people like me -- for which I thank you and I hope you will write even better. But you are really already doing a good job with PC Guide.

Thanks for your patience.


Pachomius2000