Why Rev needs a cookbook (newb questions)

[Stephen Cox]

Why not just comment - leave notes - in the online Dictionary? That be easy
for all to di and help a lot.


On 5/9/09 2:59 AM, "Peter Alcibiades" <palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I said this before, but its why Rev needs a cookbook on the lines of Carla
> Schroder's great  "Linux Cookbook"
> 
> Steven Cox's queries illustrate the problem very clearly. Imagine a kitchen
> with lots of pots and pans and ingredients in it.  It comes with a 400
> page guide detailing the function of every one.
> 
> We now have an intelligent Martian who has just been employed as a cook.
> His first assignment is spaghetti carbonara, or cassoulet.  Where does he
> start?
> 
> What he has is a superb kitchen manual.  What he wants is a cookbook, with
> a systematic set of entries like this (from the Rev for C programmers
> page):
> 
> "To filter a handler so that it only responds to certain objects, rather
> than every object below it in the hierarchy, use the target function to
> determine which object originally received the message being handled.
> 
> "To create a code library, place the handlers you want to re-use in any
> object that¹s available in your a stack, then use the insert script
> command to add that object to the hierarchy."
> 
> So what Steven is looking for is a cookbook with entries like "to empty a
> field......"    "to check for a variable.....".  "to make elements in a
> list field clickable...."  "to change the mouse to a hand while
> hovering..."
> 
> Without this, learning becomes a Zen like experience.  You know the story
> of the young man wanting to learn swordsmanship?  He enrols with a master,
> and the first day when expecting to meet for a lesson, is astonished to be
> hit violently over the head with a stick.  His master has sneaked up on
> him.  As time goes by the attacks continue and become more and more
> devious.  One day he is about to enter a room and something makes him
> pause.  His master emerges from behind the door and bows deeply.
> 
> Its OK.... but a recipe book is easier.
> 
> Peter
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