Tutorials
While Nate complainted about David Gay's Tutorial, I want to mention, the
tutorial for me was perfect, small and complet. Offcourse I wasnt an
absolute beginner, but are there tutorials for absolute beginners ? You need
to learn some bases by trail-and-error. "Just press a button and see what it
does" - type of attitude is usually considered bad, however trust me, that
with nowadays systems an absolute beginner can not harm the PC, because they
lack the knowledge.
Nate, I say, your friend needs a little bit *experience* .. and during such
an experience with programming (you could be sitting next to him, giving him
hints) he will be making a number of conclusions rapidly. Like to begin
with: "a program is a list of commands, read from top to bottom." ... is not
true for every language, but for Euphoria it is.
If are interested enough in programming and have some time, you learn it
yourself.
You cant learn everything from books, you have to learn to analyze the
proces of what is happening when you do something. Books never write about
that. And they shouldnt, it would be like putting the answers of some
exercizes just above the exersize question itself.
Nate, you will prolly still give it a go, but you really really cant make a
tutorial for the first experience with programming and the pc in general.
Only direct a few crucial points so they can get on, and not get stuck in
something they cant understand or know yet.
Ralf N
nieuwen at xs4all.nl
UIN: 9389920
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