Maybe the 0.84 refresh of the Sugar manual is an opportunity to address this.
-walter On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Caroline Meeks <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Thats not how Sugar was designed to be used, but it is the conditions under >> which it is usually evaluated. I think this is one of our marketing >> challenges. >> > > +1 > > I was flummoxed my first 20 minutes with Sugar a year ago (How do I > save/retrieve a file?) > > Actually, I was also flummoxed in 1986 when I first used a Mac (How do > I get a directory listing? Where's the CLI?) > > And in 1982 when I first used a PC (What am I supposed to type at this > prompt?) > > But - I was *not* when I used my very first computer, a colorful > Commodore VIC-20 which booted directly into BASIC. That's because the > machine came with perhaps the friendliest little blue beginner's > manual I have ever used (sample: 'Hit the "Return" key a couple of > times to clear it out'). > > Food for thought.... > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
