> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch > Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [avr-chat] AVR Documentation > > Eric Weddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What I don't want to see is the community going that way again, with > > fragmented documentation spread all over individual sites. > > Still, the Wiki could (and probably will some day) be a very nice > companion to the official documentation. I can only repeat it, for > those who can read German, I think it might eventually evolve the same > way as the Wiki on http://www.mikrocontroller.net/ . This is somewhat > like *the* German web forum for microcontrollers (not only AVR), and > there used to be an AVR Tutorial initially written by the operator of > that site, which then became the initial input of the Wiki-based AVR > tutorial it is now. > > I see similar prospects for the avrfreaks.net Wiki (and I'm glad the > rumours about their Wiki finally materialized): while it must not try > to replace official project documentation, it can go beyond that > documentation in providing something like an "Idiot's guide to your > first AVR project". The avr-libc doc examples aim to get first-time > AVR users started with the AVR, but they concentrate on the technical > details, so their prerequisite level is not zero, i.e. you should > already basically know a bit about controllers, about how to solder > the stuff together etc. The Wiki can then accompany that by > explaining all these basics as well (and this is usually best written > by someone who has just been passing that part of their lurning > curve). As for official documentation, it should be fairly easy in > the Wiki to simply link to it.
Thanks for clarifying my thoughts! I agree with you completely on all this! :-) Eric _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
