Hello, I'm still a lurker enjoying watching this list grow and admiring Ed and Paul''s patience, diligence and good humour in answering questions and requests. If there is one secret to making an open source project grow it must be this.
However, I make one of my rare interventions as you have branched into a subject which is not about dabo expertise. And, IMHO, you have so far not answered the questions. This question is about education. This question is probably from someone in the actual target audience of dabo - someone who just wants to use it, not to learn it. But he is clearly making a big effort to learn. I enjoyed the digression into editors but editors is a developer playground, not a users. So, one must assume from the nature of the replies that dabo is still a long way from being a users tool. That doesn't matter. So, the questioner needs to learn. The best reply that I've seen so far is, in effect - don't. Don't learn, do. Schools and education in general have a lot to answer for. One of the mental burdens they laden us with is that you have to learn 10,000% of what you need to know before you start using it. That is ridiculous. Just decide what it is you want to do with dabo (and that process might make you realise it isn't dabo you need) then just get on with it. Fire questions at the python list, at this list. Google for words you don't understand. Write code. You clearly do not have that great enemy of learning, being too proud to admit one doesn't know. On a Filemaker list I follow someone asked for an explanation of a self relationship. I had not long done this myself and I told him the only way to know what a self relationship is is just to create one and keep trying till you get it. In general to learn, you have to either be able to create a mental image of what you need to know, which means you are three parts there already, or you just have to get on with it until that model forms. Enough of sounding of that a poor man's Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hopefully the post I am responding to will be the beginning of a users list, Norman Winn _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users
