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[edit] Help Book Knowledge Level

Being an MS Access and SQL programmer, I began organizing the Microsoft Access book, to which I intend to contribute as time permits. However, I don't know what user knowledge level do I write to? Also, I specialize in a specific version of the software, and the page title is too general. Any direction would be greatly appreciated. Ineuw (talk) 21:10, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

See what content is there, what content you are capable of submitting (or merge from other sources), post something on the talk page and establish a scope for the project, see if it can be better referenced with a new title (propose the new title on the book talk page and if not opposed request a title change on the administrative assistance forum).

Keep in mind that Wikibooks aren't restricted by space not even by the format they present here and the finalization of a project is near utopian. By definition Wikibooks are always open for editing (you can establish static versions and upload them as PDFs, but few examples exist). A static copy of a version of a Wikibook could be moved to Wikisource after someone publishes it. --Panic (talk) 02:37, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Panic24,thanks for the advice. Ineuw (talk) 21:57, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Mandarin Chinese Grammar for Pimsleur Students

I figured that I will not finish this book. It is the whole concept of the book that I dislike, so I wouldn't even want to leave it to someone else to finish. I would like to have the book deleted, and leave tabula rasa for the potential creation of a general Chinese grammar book (which makes more sense to me than a grammar book that only caters to Pimsleur students). If this is okay, I would tackle the deletion within the next days. Stilfehler (talk) 13:40, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

In theory, if you are the only contributor to the book, you can tag it with {{delete}} and it can be speedy deleted. Given the amount of content, the "speedy delete" might be declined, in which case you should request the deletion at votes for deletion. Unusual? Quite ^TalkQu 20:36, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

The main problem with the concept of the book is probably that you have to avoid copyright issues: systematically citing examples from a commercial language course would probably be a copyright violation. This might also be a good reason to delete the book. --Martin Kraus (talk) 08:30, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Thank you! Stilfehler (talk) 13:26, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Get Browser to remember where I left off reading - How to?

I checked FAQ and reading room. I found nothing on this subject so far.

I am actively working my way through a how-to book with many chapters. How can I tag or bookmark where I leave off reading within the tools available on Wikibooks. I know I can bookmark a page with my browser or google bookmarks, but I keep having to reset this every time I am forced to stop reading by other demands on my time.

Is there a better way to get Wikibooks, on log in, to remember (i) what I am actively reading and (ii) where I left off? If this is explained already somewhere, sorry I missed it. Ashokdad (talk) 12:42, 19 October 2009 (UTC) ashokdad, 10/19/09 ~8:45 AM Eastern US time.

To understand why it is difficult, let us look at the nature of the interface to Wikimedia products, like this wiki. You page through the book, by pressing links that move you from page to page within the book. These links, in turn, are similar to HTML anchors, in that they contain only the information on which page you have selected. Your browser can therefore buffer only the page URL, and if you bookmark it, it can return you only to the page you were reading. Books with long pages, will tend to demand more from the reader, because they will cause the reader to have to window down the page to the area where they were reading, in much the same way you have to scan the page of a book you have put down, in order to find where on the page you left off.

If there is a printable version or an PDF version of the book, your problem can be solved by downloading the printable version or PDF to your home computer where you can leave it running in its own window, and only have to scan the screen to find where you left off. For the PDF a free PDF reader is available from Adobe, which you will find invaluable if you want to read lots of books, and articles.--Graeme E. Smith (talk) 15:19, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

It depends on the article/book but if the article you're reading is divided into lots of sections then you could simply bookmark the section each time as each section contains the URL for that article but also an anchor to the section.--ЗAНИA

^talk 00:38, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] plz i need solution

Write a C++ program to implement employee directory, which will let the organization to perform the following functions:

1) Insert the record of new employee 2) Delete the record of an existing employee 3) Find the record of an existing employee 4) Display Report

Following information of each employee will be stored

Employee ID: an integer value to store the unique id for each employee Employee Name: the name of each employee. Employee Address: Address of each employee Employee Salary: a float value to store salary of each employee.

Hint:

Following information of each employee will be stored

Employee ID: an integer value to store the unique id for each employee Employee Name: the name of each employee. Employee Address: Address of each employee Employee Salary: a float value to store salary of each employee.

You can use the following structure to store the information of a single employee:

Struct Employee {

Int empID; Char *empName; Char *empAddress; Float empSalary; Employee * pNext; }Following is the sample interaction: