OpenEuphoria

Re: Windows Programming Beginner's Guide

• Posted by futures8 <futures8 at PCOLA.GULF.NET> Aug 13, 2000
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Dr. John,

Your proposal for the Beginner's Guide sounds like the answer to a prayer.

I've been programming in various DOS languages for years, mainly Clipper and
Foxpro,
and saw the need to move on to Windows programming. I bought Visual Foxpro 6.0

and after studying most of the 1,000 page manual "The Hacker's Guide to Visual
Foxpro 6.0",
Granor and Roche, for months, I gave up in disgust, without the faintest
notion of where or
how to begin.

Your Guide will be a Godsend.

With regard to  your stated purpose (below) and the Intended Results, I
couldn't agree more.

I don't think it will matter much, where the first draft is located; your own
web site is, no doubt,
as good a location as any other.

With regard to suggestions, it seems that many authors are using HTML very
effectively as
the vehicle for their documentation. Perhaps that would be appropriate for
your "Guide", also.

Thanks for offering to fill this need.

Regards,

Jim




John Coonrod wrote:

> Based on communications between David Gay and me, I'd like to invite
> recommendations for the following mini-project.
>
> Project proposal draft 1
>
> Purpose:
>
> Create a Beginner's Guide to Windows Programming that enables DOS-type
> programmers to make the conceptual leap to windows programming.
>
> Intended Results:
>
> 1. Get across the basic paradigm shift between procedural programming and
> event-driven object-based programming with simplicity and clarity.
>
> 2. Make clear the basic concepts that underly the Win32lib elements -
> without tying
> people to specific implementations.
>
> 3. Promote a set of programming practices that will save people time and
> encourage clarity, simplicity and code sharing. (Note - one downside of
> Euphoria is that it not only makes programming easier - it makes bad
> programming easier.)
>
> 4. Give people a strong leg-up on using examples and other people's
> programs.
>
> 5. Contribute to the community Euphoria effort by keeping the style
> consistent with the RDS documents. (Perhaps offer to rewrite the
> win32lib.htm to match that style?)
>
> 6. Make the document so attractive that more people are pulled to do
> programming.
>
> Any further suggestions?
>
> Is there a generally accepted place to put my first draft, or should I put
> it on my own website and let people look at it there?
>
> ----------------
> Dr. John Coonrod, Vice President, jc at thp.org
> The Hunger Project, 15 East 26th Street, NY, NY 10010 www.thp.org