Sunday, April 25, 2010

Clever Algorithms: A smoke test for my book project

I have been working hard on my book project (Clever Algorithms) for a few months now. I'm slowly, but steadily approaching the half-way point. When I do, when I have enough content to declare half a book, I intend to release all prepared content to-date for free (for comment) on a small website.

In anticipation (an attempted boost project morale), I have released a smoke test for the book - see a screenshot to the left.

Check it out: http://CleverAlgorithms.com

The page provides a mock cover and a terse description of the book, including a table of contents. I provided three links for the expected PDF, paperback, and html versions of the book I intend to release. The object of the page is to gauge interest in each of these three mediums using Google Analytics. I've also connected a small form for collecting email addresses so that I can notify any who is interested when the book is finally released.

I may also split test some additional mock covers and maybe even the title of the book itself (with some added traffic via some ad words).

If you're into algorithms or Artificial Intelligence (Computational Intelligence, Metaheuristics, Biologically Inspired Computation), then you can follow my progress developing content on my github project. I've been preparing each section as a standalone technical report and pushing them to my scribd account in an effort to start to build some base interest the effort.

1 comments:

Rick said...

I have a better pic for your book cover:

http://rick.evertsz.name/downloads/JasonBrownlee.jpg