Re: Newbies - a proposal
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:18:53 +0000, Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> wrote:
>FWIW, I did actually IM Lobelia last week to help but it soon became
<snip>
Indeed.
I totally disagree with the "personal tutor" idea (see PS)
If we are to try and help newbies, we should have a "fixed course", or
several, that we guide newbies step-by-step through.
Partly RDS tries and mostly succeeds to do this; mostly what /you/ are
now banging on about is those who will just not be helped, imo.
Create a new course/tutorial, and equally guide everyone though it by
all means; but *never* let oddballs like Lobelia discourage you.
If anything, Euphoria needs something that *everyone* can follow.
Regards,
Pete
PS: Keep all this on EUforum, with standard of message headers, eg
[PT] Lobelia: Ping Broker: Re Running my first program
But we *all* have to see it; part of the glory of this message board
is just that: everyone sees it, and if asked <via msg hdr convention>
we will (I am sure agree to) leave the topic alone.
If the student thinks they need an answer *NOW*, then they drop the
header style, and get flooded with help, as they do now.
I think that would work just as well, just needs one person/allocator
of volunteers, and be prompt about doing it to the first message
posted to EUforum by newbies.
Correct me if I am wrong.
PPS: I have been staggered by the quality of (a few) newbies to this
list this summer. I'll name no names, but one or two are so sharp they
scare me! They have _definately_ picked up faster than I did...,
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