Agreed -- you can't learn a damned thing without putting in your own skull time. Perhaps I'm too distrustful of internet search engines -- I like a good reference handbook. If there isn't one available, I'll just have to make do.
On Thursday, September 4, 2014 6:24:04 PM UTC-4, William Hermans wrote: > > Tim, what you need to do is figure out what you want to do, and then start > googling / reading. There is no "easy reading list" because no one thinks > just like you ( or me / anyone else for that matter ). > > I understand this is not very optimal, especially if you have a deadline. > But that is how it works. Just be glad that today there is far more > information out there than there was at the initial launch last year. > > For instance, I spent 2-3 weeks reading how uEnv.txt and uboot worked well > enough to make custom changes of my own. *Before* I knew enough to ask > Robert a specific enough question to get a good answer. Also, this answer > was not a hold my hand step by step answer, it was a link to the uboot > config header file for the beaglebone/ beaglebone black. > > Anyway, the moral of the story is this. Teach yourself to teach yourself. > Or, in other words, learn how to think for yourself. I understand learning > by example all to well myself ( I hate walls of text, when a proper example > can explain all ). However and example does not necessarily teach you > anything. The ole give a man a fish versus teach a man to fish analogy . . . > > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
