Hi Ben, Users are never guilty. Users are users :). That is why feedback is so important.
I certainly like your idea of having tutorials closer to the tools and the context in which it is needed. The problem is that right now we miss a concept in this area. I have some ideas, but they are raw. I would welcome opinions in this direction. I know that Sean played with it, but I think it did not mature yet. Sean? Actually, I would be interested not necessarily in code but in sketches and drawings (not code diagrams :)) of how tutorials could look like. Cheers, Doru On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Tudor Girba <tu...@tudorgirba.com> wrote: > >> >> What I cannot quite grasp is that while we pride ourselves with working >> on a reflective language, when we have reflective tools, we seem to not be >> able to take half an hour to build the tool that fits our needs. I am >> still wondering what is needed to improve this. I think that it's a problem >> of exercise or of communication, but it seems that just providing the >> examples that I linked before is not enough and most people look at the >> inspector still as a black box tool. >> > > I am guilty :) I try now to think why this is and the word that seems > most appropriate is "inertia". By that I mean, at times previous I think > you've published some tutorials, but I've had too many things on my plate > to check it out - then when it comes to needing something, it takes time to > find the tutorial, so I push on working aroud it. Poor habit maybe.... but > there you go :) > > Alternatively, sometimes I've done a tutorial a long time before I have an > actual need for it, and by the time I need to use it, I've forgotten and > can't find the reference. The best time for a tutorial is when you need to > use it. > > I wonder if there could be a button that linked to a ProfStef type > tutorial that described how to customise it. Perhaps a help button that > flashes once in a new image - just to draw the eye to investigate it. Then > at the time I want/need to do it, its there in the image, with the least > friction to learning what I need to know at the time I need to do it. > > Now sorry I'm on a new computer for the xmas season and I'm having a > problem getting PharoLauncher up an running** to check what I've said > against what is currently shown on the tool. > > > cheers -ben > > **see other thread. > > > I will try to work on a tutorial to see if it gets better, but do you find >> the moldability proposition not valuable or just unclear? >> >> >> -- www.tudorgirba.com "Every thing has its own flow"
