Tutorials + idea

[Wolfgang M. Bereuter]

On Dienstag, Dezember 31, 2002, at 08:08  Uhr, Richard Gaskin wrote:


> But for the near term, while printed books have many advantages, it 
> seems
> more worthwhile focusing on electronic learning materials.  In 
> addition to
> being more enviro-friendly than a dead-trees version that lives only a 
> few
> months, along with that comes a much lower production and distribution 
> cost,
> and the work can be delivered piecemeal rather than needing everything 
> done
> at once.  Fortunately the production of such things is something Rev is
> particularly good at.

Richard
I m with you, but pls dont take my word *book* to precise...
The Book i mean is not only a paper-book. It should be too an app, pdf, 
cd, e-documents etc...

> To encourage this sort of thing I've added a "Tutorials" section to the
> RevNet Stacks listing.  I've begun work on a simple shell project that 
> can
> be used for tutorials, and will be a tutorial itself -- on how to make
> tutorials. :)
Do you mean this?
http://www.fourthworld.com/casestudies/cases/case0007gas.html
The links (of the thumbnails) in the left frame of the 4(!) frames on 
this page do not work; (On click nothing happens). Maybe I dont 
understand your page or I m doing anything wrong..?

> But we needn't wait for that:  if any of the readers of this list have
> insights to share with newcomers, please consider making a tutorial 
> stack or
> a Web page to share that knowledge.  If you're a consultant, I can 
> tell you
> that, judging from my hits logs, there are definite benefits to having
> Rev-related materials on your site -- seems RunRev's marketing is 
> raising
> interest in Rev rather well, as I see a month-to-month increase in 
> hits from
> search engines for Rev-related searches.

So many traditional scripters here, even the Guys from rev, imho do not 
really see the total potential of a platform independent tool like 
rev/MC, when they are looking only at potential new *scripters*.

Let me give you one example why I think this: In the biggest town of 
the world - Mexico city, the administration has thrown out Windows, 
because it is to expensive now, and have changed to Linux. They will 
need a lot of new tools, apps of any kind in the next years. But they 
are interested in developers coming from their local population, 
because thats the cheapest way to give them work and get anything back 
from them later on. So there is a potential of some hundred thousands 
future developers, if... if(!) the curve of learning and understanding 
"the/a" developer tool is not for a small target market like well 
prepared scripters/programmers ...
For you (and a lot of gurus here) scripting this xtalk is an easy 
thing, because you know it and you dominate it. But for the rest of us, 
which are not so prepared in scripting its fairly difficult. Think 
about that: how many people could work well with DOS..? A small group 
of persons only. The breakthrough was the more (for the rest of 
us)-understandable (brainfriendly) UI "Windows", (yes I know, it was 
the Mac but thats another story) which has *combined* symbols with 
text...
The same you have seen in Page Layout, Webdesign, Multimedia Authoring 
and you will see in programming/scripting in the future. When we will 
see a tool with a real brainfriendly UI everybody can be a developer. 
And we need much more to get more easier solutions. Rev with the MC 
engine is a first and big step, still lacks this kind of UI but has the 
potential to more...

my 2EuroCent...

regards
Wolfgang M. Bereuter

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