Peter,
As a new user of Revolution I agree with your analysis of Dummies.
Small things can make a huge difference to beginners!
For me 'Software At The Speed Of Thought' lacks an Index at the back
which would make zeroing in on snippets *much* easier to locate.
To counter this lack, I found myself having to use a highlighter pen on
virtually every word of Courier (of current interest) set in the text.
That's another thing. Typographically, the Times/Courier combination is
not a good one. Important single words of Courier are hard to detect.
One has to read the whole paragraph to encounter the Courier emphasized
word.
It does not have enough emphasis to make it stand out and contrast with
Times.
All 'Code' text in Courier Bold would have been better and easy to do.
Yes, these comments are picky, but in a constructive way I hope and
free advice from a Typeface Designer.
Adrian
On 9 Dec 2006, at 10:01, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Get Dan Shafer's book revised for a third edition, some introductory
parts
slimmed down, a few more details on some of the topics, a few more
detailed
howtos, and put the CD with the express edition with it. Particularly
expand
the parts about storing, retrieving and deleting data. There's too
much
about the user interface, and too little about how to write stuff that
deals
with the data which is why the end user is writing the program in the
first
place.
But, small criticisms aside, 'Software at the speed of thought' is
really
excellent for a first introduction for a sophisticated end user. It is
everything that the Dummies book is not - it just needs to go a little
further. And have the express edition packaged along with it.
Get some detailed material on how to work with arrays, lists, and
tables into
the Revolution pdf.
Peter
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