Patrick,
Maybe we should move this discussion off the list to not bother others
that may not be so interested in it.
What I am trying to say (answering your question) is that learning by
example is natural to human behaviour and extremely efficient. If you
attend any of my classes here in Berkeley you will see examples from
begining to the end, no matter what the subject is: math or programming.
Even with learned programmers, examples do work well, I took, for example
(no pun intended) an MSDN CD for C++ I have here by my side, 80% os the
space in the disk is taken by examples, the rest is shared between the
software, SDK, and manuals ...
You promptly assumed that the guy wanted to copy the examples at hand.
I don't think that this is right! He may indeed end up copying it, but
you can't assume it.
Paulo Ney
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 2 23:40:12 2004
>From: "Patrick Gundlach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?
>
>Hello Paulo,
>
>> Everyone learns a language by example, if you try to teach one you
>> will see, even Patrick, when he was a baby learned his first language
>> by example (real language), it is only natural, it is only human. To
>> argue the contrary is just lack of experience in teaching.
>
>Right, but what do you want to say? Typography and design is not a
>matter of learning a language.
>
>Patrick
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