I definitely agree with Alan's comment.
There is also something to be said for the other side, which is that if they
learn FB and CF together they may never distinguish the two again. Now, this
may not be a bad thing for a FB-based development group, but they may have a
hard integrating into a non-FB (dare I call it a "free-for-all") group. SO
my thought would be that you teach them pure CF and let them do a project or
two on their own. Get the concepts down. *THEN* show them FB which they'll
then say "wow, why didnt you show us this earlier?" which is exactly the
response you want. The last thing you want to do, since you're trying to
help these newbies out, is to have them end up at a interview sometime where
they have no idea that FB is NOT part of CF. (for good or ill, there are a
lot of big CF names out there who are NOT proponents of FB for any numbers
of reasons)
This is consistent with the theory that you never really learn something
until you do it wrong first. If someone hands you too clean a solution you
rarely understand why that solution *was* the solution in the first place
>
> You da man! I only -wish- I had learned FB simultaneously with CF. Every
> time I look at one of my pre-FB apps floating around out there, ugh! Gimme
> that back!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Toby Tremayne [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:57 PM
> > To: Fusebox
> > Subject: learning
> >
> > I was talking to a colleague here about teaching a few other
> people in our
> > company cold fusion. What I had thought was Id teach the coldfusion
> > concepts and fusebox concepts at the same time - "this is cold
> fusion and
> > this is the way we write it" sort of thing. Does anyone see any
> > difficulty
> > with teaching the two at once? Or does it make more sense to tech cold
> > fusion then bring them round to fusebox.
> >
> > My personal opinion was that to teach fusebox later on would be
> > silly, as
> > I'd have to then RE-educate everyone...
> >
> > But I'd be interested to hear what everyone thinks
> >
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