Nino Novak wrote:
On Monday 26 October 2009 15:35, Elder Dan Lewis wrote:
http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/db3/base3_feedback/Chapter-2-outline_DEL_20091026.odt/view
Sorry, I can't resist to add my 2¢:
For me, the tutorial "Entwurf einer Datenbank" from the German
OOoAuthors Team was very helpful when trying to learn Base:
step-by-step, very intuitive example database, very well written, very
straight forward. So why reinvent the wheel?
Sorry, but somehow I feel I must spread the word about such a well
written tutorial ;-)
(Although it claims to be a translation of an english document I never
found the english original, so it might be a good idea to retranslate
it back.)
Hopefully you don't feel discouraged - it's just a thought I felt the
necessity to throw in.
Nino
Mach nichts. (I kann Deutch nur ein bischen.) ;-)
How big is the database in this tutorial? Perhaps it might be a
great help if it is large enough. Does it require the use of SQL in
creating some of its queries?
One of the things that has bothered me is that many of the guides
for OOo are written in English and then translated into the other
languages. I personally believe that there are many people using a
variety of languages which could be writing parts of these guides, and
these could then be translated into the other languages including English.
Unless someone knows what the original English document from which
it was translated, it would be nice if one of your team members would
translate it into English to be placed in the tutorial section of the
English Documentation. Just a thought.
What I want to do in the Base Guide is to describe the process of
going from a general idea of the data someone has and what he wants to
do with the data to the finished database. Zoltan from Hungury has
suggested a business application database, and I really like this idea.
I want it to be a fairly large and complex database to demonstrate how
to create such a database using Base. Unless the document to which you
referred does this, I know of no documentation on Base which does this.
Dies ist meine zwei pfennig. :-)
Your comments are not discouraging to me at all. I don't want to
"reinvent the wheel", but I do want to redesign it so that it will do
more things. And I too would like to see an English translation of the
document you mentioned. It may well serve a very useful purpose as a
starting point for what I would like the Base Guide to become.
--Dan
