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Good luck! --Panic (talk) 09:28, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your message, I made the mistake (as I quite often do) of reading "This is not an..." is "This is an" so I thought you were a bot or something :P. I've found things really interesting here, a lot of books I've looked at seem inactive, I've had a few ideas to make write them, and done so, reading that it's good to be bold. It seems quite often people talk about making a change, but they don't actually do anything (maybe worried about other people?) So hope to step out and make those changes to the best of my intuition, any advice? --Mattylaws (talk) 12:49, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Welcome Matt
Hey! This is Arun Reginald. I have been actively involved in just about every nook and cranny of the Java Programming book and I sincerely think that the feedback you left on the book is highly valuable and may take the book in the right direction. I would like to help you in editing the book and making the book as readable and enjoyable as it can possibly be. I haven't been editing for a while now but would be grateful if a new set of eyes could look through the Java Programming book. Report anything you find that may need cleaning up and I will make sure that is done. Thanks again for your comments and feedback. Hope to see more ideas sprouting up from your end. Cheers – Arunreginald (talk) 00:51, 22 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your message, as mentioned Java Programming talk page sorry I've been a way for a few days. I've quite enjoyed looking through the book and thinking about how the end product would look like, I think there's quite an uphill struggle but I certainly hope to try and (with the help of others) get the project on the right track.  Just forgive me if I make a mistake, wikibooks is very new to me and using wikis in general is quite against what I'm used to (where development happens quite behind the scenes. --Mattylaws (talk) 19:21, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi Mattylaws
I'm new on wikibooks and interrested in doing a dutch translation of this wikibook, i translate cause it makes it easier for me to learn and remember so i was wondering if i can publish the translated pages as i go on ?

and i wanted to ask if there's a way of communication with the others working on the java programming wikibook.

Hope to hear from you.

Greetings, John Mainart