Well, yes and no. I wasn't just thinking of Alan, I was thinking of anyone
who could produce something. John Hinsley for example, instead of him
spending a lot of time writing a tutorial for Rolodex, I think it would be
good if most of his tutorial was automated. And any other person for that
matter. That includes myself, I'd like to be able to write a program, as an
example a simple GUI calculator, then be able to produce an automated
tutorial. And there's lots of talented and knowledgeable people in this
group who probably don't have time to sit and write a tutorial, but if it
was automated then it wouldn't be such a time consuming project. But of
course it would be nice to see some expert work, though that isn't the main
idea.

Regards,
Gary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Szuhay" <jeff at szuhay.org>
To: "Squeak Public Maliing List" <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 2:29 AM
Subject: Re: Squeak how-tos


> >I'm not quite sure what you mean. If funishing is a colloquialism then I
> >don't know what it means. If it is finishing, then I don't know enough to
do
> >one. If it is furnishing then maybe I could describe it a bit better (and
> >perhaps your spelling could mean you'll be out of a job soon :-)).
>
> I think I understand his problem.
>
> When I have learned/taught the use of various computer environments,
> I have been surprised at how valuable it is to actually watch an expert
> use the tool telling and describing their objectives and how they go
> about achieving those objectives.
>
> On more than one occasioni, I've learned more watching somebody use a
> tool as it was intended to be used (maybe as _they_ intended it to be
> used)
> but which operation was not (could not be) described elsewhere.
>
> Unfortunately, I've not yet had the benefit of one of Alan's or Dan's
> demos
> so I too am still just kind of stabbing around.
>
> So, what would I like to see...
>
> - a video of an expert using the data browser to
>  a) do a very simple project
>  b) maintain/extend and existing project
>  c) debug a common type of problem
>
> - a video of various Squeak configurations and how and why those
>   experts configured them that way
>
> - in the first video, perhaps as an extension, the whole build, test,
> debug
>   cycle in Squeak would be extremely valuable to watch (even for some
>   apparently trivial problems).
>
> 8-)
>
>
>
> --
>    **************************************************
>    Jeff Szuhay              A randomly-directed
>    www.szuhay.org           chaotical wetware pattern
>    jeff at szuhay.org          recognizer/generator.
>
>
>    Do not believe that it is very much of an advance
>    to do the unnecessary three times as fast.
>    -- Peter Drucker (1909-)
>
>    Think about this next time you buy a computer.
>
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