Hi Neil As an aside, I must say that, despite shying away from using javascript > with TW for a while, I have found that the barrier to entry was very low, > certainly for anyone with any knowledge of a 'C-like' language. I can't > help thinking that many people must be struggling to do things using the > core that they could accomplish much more easily by taking the plunge into > javascript (especially anything involving numbers). I wonder whether > people would benefit if javascript was promoted more as a part of the basic > TW tool set rather than segregating it in the 'dev' area, which makes it > seem more daunting than it really is? There must be many people like me > who do a bit of programming, but don't consider themselves to be > developers. A quick primer tutorial is all it would take (I haven't > looked... maybe one already exists). >
Interesting thought. With TWC we repeatedly saw people who would not classify themselves as developers but nevertheless managed to lash up a simple macro (often by copying and pasting chunks of existing code). We pulled the developer material into a separate wiki in response to feedback that it was making the main tw5.com material harder to use for beginners - with the content combined, a search like "transclusion" brings back a lot of results that aren't relevant for most users. I guess there's a couple of ways we could explore this idea: * Having a better introduction to dev topics within the tw5.com wiki, making Neil's case that the barriers to JS dev within TW are low * More introductory tutorial material in tw5.com/dev, with the goal of taking beginners through their first steps Best wishes Jeremy > > Cheers, > > Neil. > > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
