On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 01:40:00PM -0700, Christopher Lee wrote: -> I have a couple ideas for organizing our tutorials more clearly: -> -> - each tutorial should have a "headline" statement that summarizes -> what skill(s) the reader will learn, and what it assumes they already -> know (with links to more basic tutorials that teach those more basic -> skills). That way, a reader should be able to figure out immediately -> which tutorial genuinely fits his / her goals. -> -> - I notice a general pattern in our tutorials, of two fundamentally -> different kinds of material -> * using Pygr with existing databases, i.e. how to "plug in" -> existing databases so Pygr can access them -> * using Pygr to create your own databases. (this material really -> needs to be expanded, because in the past I often assumed that readers -> already had their own databases, and just wanted to plug them in to -> Pygr). -> -> This subdivision of two themes is present in nearly all our -> tutorials. For example, part of the worldbase tutorial describes -> using worldbase to access various datasets, whereas another part -> explains how to add your own datasets to worldbase. I propose -> breaking this into two separate, shorter tutorials (linked to each -> other, of course), so it's easier for users to see what skills are -> covered where, and to quickly find the tutorial that covers what they -> want to learn at any given moment. -> -> What do other people think?
Generally sounds good. But it'd be nice to have the tutorials, first and foremost; organizing, tagging, linking, etc. is secondary to having them be google-able and functional. --titus -- C. Titus Brown, [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pygr-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pygr-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
