To Richard & Heather: yesssss!
To everyone else: We all know that Rev is great... even dolts like me can hammer out something useful in a day.. (note that your consideration of ' useful ' is one of those things in which YMMV). I truly wish that my kids' first grade teacher would take Rev up on this... she'd not be persuaded by a tagline of "spend two or three years in university to make a talking electronic book!" I'm lovin' it! Judy On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jbv wrote: > > I for one have about 30 years of experience as a programmer, > > and have used about 20 different languages... > > Of course *mastering* programming takes a lifetime, and of course no > one-day session will attempt to accomplish that. > > But my first experience with an xTalk (after deciding computers were > boring back in high school from having learned BASIC on a Wang) was the > exhilarating feeling that comes with making a button and scripting simply: > > on mouseUp > go next > end mouseUp > > In that instant I was hooked! > > I've spent the better part of the subsequent 20 years learning more; > different languages, coding practices, style, architecture, design, > workflow analysis, and I'm still learning new things every day. > > But it all has to begin somewhere. And with Rev, it's quite possible to > learn enough to accomplish some small but satisfying tasks in a single > day. That success will do more to encourage the new programmer to move > on to 20 KLOC code bases than attempting such a beast first time out. > > Given that the art of programming is fueled by curiosity and enthusiasm, > Marian's comments were more reflective of the process that leads toward > success than many others in this thread. > > We can spend our day nit-picking the wording of other people's > marketing, or we can accept that perhaps RunRev's invitation wasn't > targeted at those of us who've been coding for decades, and instead > devote our energies to learning and sharing that learning. > > Which is a more compelling demonstration of accomplishment? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Managing Editor, revJournal > _______________________________________________________ > Rev tips, tutorials and more: http://www.revJournal.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
