In my opinion you should wait for a stable version of Qt 5 first. No point for someone to publish a book while Qt 5 is still in beta.

Is Qt 5 beta version available ?

aabc wrote:

Is Qt 5 beta version available ?

Please have a look at Qt 5 roadmap and release plan [qt-project.org]

The release plan is unfortunately not up-to-date. There will be (most probably) a first beta available around the contributor summit at the end of June.

That, and there is nobody with sufficient experience in Qt5 who has time to write a book at the moment. If one would be published, I would be rather conspicuous. :-)

In my first post I meant Alpha rather than beta, sorry if that caused confusion, I see that leon also mentioned beta, probably following my mistake :)

I hope Johan Thelin is cooking something up, I found his take on teaching Qt to be the easiest to digest for me.

I hope that there will be a good book on Qt 5 and Qt Quick in the future. We are learning a lot from the doc and the wiki and of course from each other, but sometimes it’s also good and quite useful to read a book and discover new modules :)

I am gonna do a book about QtQuick1 …and I have no experience with Qt 5 …

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I don’t really think compiling existing QML tutorials in a “book” is of much use. The reason a QML development book is needed is because people need more in-depth information on the subject on top of the trivial information of how to use individual QML features. There are enough QML examples of how to use the language and how to get nice eye candy quickly and easily, what is needed is a QML development primer for developing more complex real life applications, the workflow it involves, separating large scale C++ logic from the QML GUI, extending the language and so on.

Actually I think Qt 5 is the super set of Qt 4. So most of the libraries are same as Qt 5 as Qt 4 and also what is new at Qt 5 has published at Qt website. So if you know C++ very well and read books prior to Qt 5 and if understand hole things then Qt library reference is enough for your professional development.

Yes you are right, the only Qt4 stuff that is missing from Qt5 is the Qt3 compatibility modules.

But still, there is plenty of material on C++, which is essentially Qt4. There are about 6-7 very good books on Qt with C++ and when it comes to C++ in depth, I have a whole bookshelf of amazing in-depth books, but the issue at hand is QtQuick2 development.

The main focus of Qt5 is QML, which is what the developer community needs. There are plenty of examples and there is the documentation on QML, but most of it is very basic, there are only 2 QML tutorials I can think of that go into some depth, but don’t cover much ground as well.

Agree with utcenter, we need in-depth QML tutorial

The documentation on QtQuick [qt-project.org] has actually improved a lot for Qt 5, providing loads of tutorials, examples and descriptions.

Is there anything particular you are missing?