How do you contact the author?

You can email me at [e-mail]. It has been a few years since I started publishing an email address in my books. I wasn’t entirely sure that it was a good idea, but I am glad that I did it. I have received emails from around the world, from readers working or studying in every industry, and—for the most part, anyway—the emails are positive, polite, and a pleasure to receive.

I try to reply promptly, but I get many emails, and sometimes I get a backlog, especially when I have my head down trying to finish writing a book. I always try to help readers who are stuck with an example in the book, although I ask that you follow the steps described earlier in this chapter before contacting me.

While I welcome reader emails, there are some common questions for which the answers will always be “no.” I am afraid that I won’t write the code for your new startup, help you with your college assignment, get involved...