Well, I don't know, but most of my programming ideas come
as intuitive flashes:
"learning becomes a Zen like experience"
when all the reasoning has fled and my mind runs screaming
through the halls of . . . Oh, sorry, I didn't know we had to
pretend that computer programming was a logical 'science'
that could be learnt by ostension. :)
A cookbook would be a jolly good idea (may be Jilly Cooper
could be hired . . .), but, as with any other manual of any type,
would only get the learner to a certain stage: of course if that
stage is the one where the learner begins to intuit what is
needed then the cookbook will have done a far better job
than most manuals.
The only problem about 'systematic' is whose 'systematic' do
you mean; taxonomy has always been notoriously
subjective.
Of course if any one wants to go to work on my moribund
RunRev learning wiki . . .
Peter Alcibiades wrote:
I said this before, but its why Rev needs a cookbook on the lines of Carla
Schroder's great "Linux Cookbook"
Steven Cox's queries illustrate the problem very clearly. Imagine a kitchen
with lots of pots and pans and ingredients in it. It comes with a 400
page guide detailing the function of every one.
We now have an intelligent Martian who has just been employed as a cook.
His first assignment is spaghetti carbonara, or cassoulet. Where does he
start?
What he has is a superb kitchen manual. What he wants is a cookbook, with
a systematic set of entries like this (from the Rev for C programmers
page):
"To filter a handler so that it only responds to certain objects, rather
than every object below it in the hierarchy, use the target function to
determine which object originally received the message being handled.
"To create a code library, place the handlers you want to re-use in any
object that’s available in your a stack, then use the insert script
command to add that object to the hierarchy."
So what Steven is looking for is a cookbook with entries like "to empty a
field......" "to check for a variable.....". "to make elements in a
list field clickable...." "to change the mouse to a hand while
hovering..."
Without this, learning becomes a Zen like experience. You know the story
of the young man wanting to learn swordsmanship? He enrols with a master,
and the first day when expecting to meet for a lesson, is astonished to be
hit violently over the head with a stick. His master has sneaked up on
him. As time goes by the attacks continue and become more and more
devious. One day he is about to enter a room and something makes him
pause. His master emerges from behind the door and bows deeply.
Its OK.... but a recipe book is easier.
Peter
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