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Re: GDP - Learning Manuall Songs section
From: |
Eyolf Østrem |
Subject: |
Re: GDP - Learning Manuall Songs section |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:41:20 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.13cvs-muttng (2007-01-26) |
On 26.09.2007 (17:41), Graham Percival wrote:
> Trevor Daniels wrote:
> >This is rather short at
> >present, and I would like to extend it. The question is, by
> >how much. I'd welcome your views on the suggestions below.
> >In particular, is this too long? Does this cover too
> >many/too few topics?
> I've been thinking about the Tutorial vs. the rest of the Learning Manual,
> and I think I finally have a good answer: the Tutorial should cover just
> enough material to allow people to write simple pieces using the
> Templates.
Can I come in here with a small request? I agree that the Tutorial
should be limited to what you say, but concerning the templates, I
don't think it should be limited to just being able to copy a template
and filling in the dotted lines. It would be much more useful if the
templates were lavishly commented (following the principle "give a man
a fish vs. teach him to steal cattle"). I know this is a question of
time, but I also know that I would have progressed more quickly from
"quite confused", "making lots of mistakes", to "having a vague idea
why this works" and finally "heureka!" if every non-trivial step had
been explained. I've actually started on something like that, and I'll
be happy to contribute eventually.
Eyolf