That being said, I *know* Kevin is particularly tuned to just the problems you describe and is focussed on making the learning experience easier for newbies. I think 2.3 will take a giant step in this direction.
Y'know, when I started using Rev, everything I learned which I thought important to me, I posted on my website at:
http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/default.htm
Over time, it has grown quite large, and is certainly not the easiest site to navigate for content. But, I did it hoping others would be helped by finding solutions there to some of the same problems they were having.
That was my constructive approach to this problem.
I know it's somewhat frustrating, but consider this:
A few years ago, I wanted to start writing a simple web app which would validate a username and password against a server. You all have seen it before.
This should be simple, right? Well, let's see. Here are the various languages and products I had to learn before I could do any of it.
I needed to be able to install and configure an IIS web server. I needed to be able to install and configure a SQL server database. I needed to be able to create tables and schema for the database.
Then I must learn all about ODBC and how to connect to a database from a client development machine. I also need to learn all about access control lists and workgroups as well as the IIS security model.
Next, install a development IDE so I can script .asp code and vbScript. But, then of course I need to obviously know all about HTML, CSS, Javascript (client-side validation) as well as SQL. These are all different languages.
I need to be able to define recordsets using one of the different .asp COM connector object libraries (of which there were a few at the time, who knows which one to use?). Next I needed to learn about the systemFileObject as I wanted to save a file on the server. More security stuff and environment variables I had never heard of. I had to purchase an extra COM object to do this. It keeps getting worse.... and there were no books which explained it all. You had to find the proverbial 'diamonds in the haystack.' Now *this* was frustrating! -- but I did eventually figure it out.
Imagine my relief when I stumbled onto RunRev. Of course the language is large, but it is understandable, and findable. I could submerse myself and still find some light at the end of the tunnel:-)
-Chipp
Marian Petrides wrote:
Ah, but what about the hapless person (I certainly have been there) who wanders around for a while doing whatever, stumbles on the dictionary listing, sees a search box and uses it. How is that person going to know (unless he remembers having seen it) that
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