yeradis wrote:
well its very important the opinions i had read here to increment the
cuality of the work of stanley
i think he is doing a great job that i personilly thanks (i'm new to
derby)
my personal opinion stanley:
but its true that is a bit far from be an introductory material
its true that is the begining and will have some changes that will be
aprecciated
but i personally think that your work stanley will be more accepted ,
digested
by newberby people LIKE ME ;-) if your work base on a tutorial case
i mean that you enumerate each line you write of the examples and then
explain the meaning of each line one by one
i know is more work but there are more than 1000 people that are
windows user (me one of then) that want to migrate to derby world and
don't find the console/terminal a great place to work (like me :-s ,
windows is killing us :-p ) is a bit hard accomodate to a terminal
when you only knows buttons ;-)
inside a java code no problem , we all are programmers ;-) but outside
having a terminal workspace to do all , to some windows user (me me me
:-D ) is so frustrated
ah and referent to uppercase or lower case thats really is a candy
you only need to specificate your style at the begining of the book
i mean somthing like this :
sql sentences will be bold and blue to the rest of book
berby command will be gray and itally
i say this because the font style and color have an effect on the mind
that is probed on pedagogical field
and i think you can abord this tools too to have a better efect ;-)
i hope this opinion serve to something ;-) differente destination of
a trash :-p
thanks stanley for your work
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Hi Yeradis -
Thank you very much for taking the time to send me your suggestions. I
see value in both suggestions. Please look at the following summary to
see if I have missed in any important points:
1) Improve the link between the command descriptions that preceded each
Activity Sequence [per your suggestion: '..enumerate each line you
write of the examples and then explain the meaning of each line one by
one..'].
NOTE: Because some people want to get directly to issuing commands I
decided early on to separate the meaning/description of each line from
the actual command examples. This is why the descriptions are in the
bulleted list that precedes each activity section rather than
interspersed with the commands. I will add to the descriptions so it is
clearer which command line(s) the bullet is talking about - number the
lines might work.
2) Differentiate between the commands, types of commands and command
results (output) by font, color or some other means: [per your
suggestion: '..specificate your style at the begining of the book i mean
somthing like this :
sql sentences will be bold and blue to the rest of book berby command
will be gray and itally..']
NOTE: I probably will not use color because color is lost when the
document is printed on a black ink printer but I am sure I can do
something with the font to make this clearer.
