Git and GitHub are not just for writing programming code. They can also be an effective tool for writing articles and books. Matthew McCullough has written a quick guide to writing books in lightweight formats. This article will be folded into this Teaching repository over the coming months.

This is a repository of ideas, techniques, tools and tricks on how to write a technical book. It was started by Matthew McCullough, and added to by Phil Haack, Dan Allen, Neal Ford, and Nate Schutta, and all the committers you'll see in the repo history. I just didn't want to hoard any knowledge that would help inspire others to write a technical book.

The contents of this repo have been partly invented from colleague conversations at O'Reilly during the Gradle book with Tim Berglund and Pearson during the Presentation Patterns book, partly inspired by open source projects, and partly refactored from snippets from colleagues and friends. Many are attributed.