Paul,
Love the idea.
thanks
I don't think it should be a replacement for many things
which are best learnt through hard expereince, but rather a 7 steps to
success guide for building a standards-based website.
things should not be hard simply for the sake of it. We need to
distinguish the set of skills and knowledge that professional
developers really need as a foundation to the discipline of web
development from stuff that just happens to be hard because we
haven't worked it out yet.
Sure, you could include best practice code samples, particularly for
off-page techniques etc. But I don't think providing baby steps for
every
eventuality is the answer. That, in itself, has the potential for
creating
lazy beginners.
Its not so much a matter of baby steps as a detailed understanding of
the problems we find ourselves solving over and over again, coupled
with suggested solutions. In order to use this effectively,
developers will still need to have a great deal of understanding of
what they are doing in technical and architectural domains. The fact
that patterns are widely used in computer science and originated in
Architecture suggests that they certainly don't make solving complex
problems trivial, rather they help make the process more efficient,
and hopefully give rise to better solutions in future
Thanks again,
john
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