The NetBeans Platform for Beginners on leanpub.com is great and everything there should still work.
About the tutorials, which specific ones are we talking about? Can you provide URLs to specific documents that you have found to be problematic? Gj On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 12:43, Mike Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > In trying to get up to speed on developing NB platform apps after a > break of many years, it looks to me like the tutorials are in a pretty > sad state. All are marked with "Need Review", but from the 3 or 4 I've > tried, really they need a thorough rewrite - several simply don't > build/compile in the first place. (Some of the problem with this appears > to be a bug in the `nbm-maven-plugin` and/or its dependencies. My > Maven-fu is not enough to debug it.) > > This is not good for encouraging/supporting platform adoption, of > course. Everything in the learning materials seems to refer prospective > platform devs to the "NetBeans Platform for Beginners" book, now >6 > years old, so I wonder how well it is sync'd with the current state of > platform APIs... (I can't afford to buy the book, so a moot point > anyway, in my case.) > > Who is doing any work on reviewing/updating the tutorials? Anyone? Is > this considered important/worthwhile? > > I'm willing to get involved in reviews/rewrites of the tutorial > material. (I taught Java and design/architecture courses for about 15 > years, so I have a good background in presenting/structuring learning > materials.) Frankly the entire tutorial set needs a comprehensive > overhaul, but that's a larger scope project than I can commit to at this > stage. Let's start with just one tutorial or so... > > Any guidance/ideas in this, especially contact with any people > *currently* working on tutorials and teaching materials, will be most > welcome! > -- > Mike Morris > https://one.mikro2nd.net/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > > >
