OpenEuphoria

Re: Newbies - a proposal

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Sep 22, 2004
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On 21 Sep 2004, at 20:06, Dan Moyer wrote:

> 
> 
> From: "Chris Burch"
> Subject: Re: Newbies - a proposal
> 
> 
> > posted by: Chris Burch <chriscrylex at aol.com>
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Ok, I've set up the boards on Uboard, and I've cobbled together a very
> quick
> > and dirty website, outlining what I believe to be the basic get you
> started
> > kit.
> >
> > http://members.aol.com/chriscrylex/euphoria.htm
> >
> > Ron Weidner, you are more than welcome to have it, mess with it, destroy
> it,
> > laugh at it whatever. Its very generous to offer a home page.
> >
> > Note the .eu domain is available now, eg www.tutor4.eu (etc etc)
> >
> > Why not refer nebies to the site, and thence to Uboard?
> >
> > (sign up now poeple! (only if you want of course) )
> >
> > Chris
> >
> 
> Nice idea, and *very* nice start Chris!
> 
> Some suggestions:
> 1.  "Noobs"???  I think "Newby" would be better understood?

Or newbie.

> 2.  First sentence is incomplete; possibly:
> This is a list of "things to do" for anyone who is interested in using the
> programming Language "Euphoria", but has never programmed before (or has a
> little programming experience, but not with Euphoria).
> 3.  I wonder if it wouldn't be a better idea to show setting associations &
> running the demos first, or just running the interpreter with a demo filename,
> &
> *then* show how to look at the code?

I consider how to use the language, and what it can do, to be far more 
important than how to set up to run it. Setup is a one-time event, a easy 
setup on a(nother) language that cannot do anything isn't worth the read. 

4) there is so much capability in the libs that is not in the Eu as delivered by
RDS, such as all win/nix gui stuff, the entire strings lib collection, file 
i/o/management using winapi, etc, which should be pointed to soon after the 
newbie is introduced to the include statement.

Kat