[Gambas-user] We should offer online Gambas courses!

[Charlie Reinl]

Am Dienstag, den 31.03.2009, 11:46 +0200 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> > I am not saying people should charge for tutorials, I am saying that it
> > would not be unreasonable if they did. Benoit has done a momentous amount
> > of work in creating Gambas.  ANd Richard's idea about annodated code is a
> > great one- except for one flaw.
> >
> > That flaw is for the beginner without a systematic method of learning the
> > language the odds are stacked against him /her.
> >
> > But like I said earlier why not have both?
> >
> > SOme people can see an example and go OH that's how it works- and others
> > need more help.  Good example: Algebra why can't kids just look at the
> > example and understand it?   Even when the example has comments the
> > children have a hard time following- but with guided instruction and guided
> > questions and answers then child is more likely to understand the math.
> >
> > Same works for adults not everyone does well solo with a textbook.
> >
> > Plus another problem is when people just cut and paste code without knowing
> > what all the code is for becuase they are told it does x but in reality it
> > does xyz.
> >
> > As far as more work for Benoit I am trying to come up with a way to lighten
> > the load. :)
> >
> > I rreally do understand what you are saying, but I think people are
> > thinking I a looking to replace a current method.  I am not I want to
> > another resource to the same methods. For the dummies like my self.
> >
> > JB
> >
> > charlesg wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > As one of the great unwashed (i.e. less proficient) Gambas users, I must
> > > say that I prefer Richards approach using annotated code examples at a
> > > simple level. I don't really feel comfortable with the idea of a paid-for
> > > tutorial system and feel that 'we' as a user base should freely
> > > contribute to the project. There is no chance of us ever equaling the
> > > stupendous contribution of Benoit and to consider charging for any
> > > contribution that we make is, I feel, not in the spirit of Gambas.
> > >
> > > I wrote a small intro tutorial to Gambas which features quite well on a
> > > Google search. I put it on a Wordpress blog so that I could get some
> > > stats. It is currently viewed about 300 times a month.
> > >
> > > Benoit has also kindly used a program of mine as a Gambas example. The
> > > examples in Gambas could be extended with a beginners section although I
> > > could see this ending up as being yet more work for Benoit.
> > >
> > > rgds
> 
> Would it be possible to have both solutions? I mean:
> 
> 1) A web site to enter well-commented and well-written pieces of code, tagged 
> so that searching is easy.
> 
> 2) An http interface so that the IDE can use these pieces of code as project 
> examples automatically.
> 
> We must have two types of examples. A full Gambas project that will be used as 
> is by the IDE, or a little piece of code inside one Form, or a Module. Then 
> the IDE will create a temporary project to open it.
> 
> Guys, what do you think about that?

Salut,

and what is, if you don't have no easy Internet-Access at home?

Ok, first, stop: I find this is a good solution!

But I think the IDE should have a downloaded repository for the
"Snippets", that could be a simple database file, so everybody can get
easily updates (from the internet).
-- 
Amicalment
Charlie