THANKS GUYS:) !
--- Carl Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05-Jan-04, Anthony Morford wrote: > > > i am just beginning working with rebol. and i know > > very little of programming. im sure that taking a > > rebol workshop would make understanding it alot > easier > > but i decide to go the cheaper, more personal, > route - > > reading the manual. ive read it once through and > still > > lack the understanding to make a successful > program > > without reffering to the book every two minutes. > is > > reading the manual the best way to acquire a > deeper > > understand of rebol on one's own? or are there > other > > ways to understand the fundimentals of rebol while > > learning all of its simple code variations? > > Out of interest, which REBOL book have you read? I > find the > REBOL/Core User's Guide is the one I turn to for > help first. > > As others have said, get used to using the REBOL > Console to test your > ideas before adding them to your script. A simple > example... > > >> foreach [a b c][1 2 3 4 5 6][print a] > 1 > 4 > >> foreach [a b c][1 2 3 4 5 6][print b] > 2 > 5 > >> foreach [a b c][1 2 3 4 5 6][print [a b]] > 1 2 > 4 5 > > And use its search ability for when you think there > should be a word > that does what you want but you haven't memorized it > yet. ie, while > the following just gives you info on a word... > > ? clear > > placing the word in speachmarks gives you a list of > words you might be > after... > > ? "clear" > > In this case it found these words... > > clear (action) > clear-fields (function) > > and perhaps clear-fields would be what you were > after, but if not, try > something else - "remove" perhaps, and so on. > > > should i begin with a different programming > language > > if im just beginning or should i do more research > on > > the fundimentals of programming itself? > > I would think REBOL's a good language to begin > programming with, but > like most people on this list I came to it after > using a variety of > other languages. (Maybe someone for which REBOL was > their first > language would like to comment?) > > I'd say do your research into programming alongside > actually trying to > write programs. One will give insights into the > other. And there's > no better encouragement than to actually write a > program that's of > use to you or others. > > -- > Carl Read > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the > subject. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
