On Jan 16, 2008, at 11:56 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
"supercard docs leave the user reverse enginering for dollars"
Yes. Yes, so true.
The problem is not with the existing docs, which are just fine for
what they
do. The problem, for people learning it, is that they are like a
cookbook
all about ingredients but with no recipes for dishes. Its like
trying to
find how to make apple pie from a book which has very fine informative
entries for apple, pastry, sugar - but no entry for pie.
What you need when you are learning however is a cookbook that
starts from
tasks. The great Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook is a fine example.
Just to remind everyone--there is a fine "cookbook" of recipes
included in the Rev documentation, albeit easily overlooked. Just
open Documentation > Getting Started, then choose Sample Projects or
Sample Scripts. This is not an exhaustive list, but does give a good
taste of how things are done in Rev.
These recipes are also searchable using the Search feature of the
Documentation (Thanks, Eric!) Search also lets you search the mail
list archives and several key web sites maintained by Rev developers.
The Search feature is under-promoted and so often overlooked. It has
saved my bacon many times.
By the time I have learned Rev properly, if I am spared that long,
I'll have
personally written one in the form of notes on topics encountered
as problems
to solve, and so will many of us. It would be a great
collaborative project
were something like this to be done right. It would probably make a
significant contribution to Rev's success and adoption if there
were one
available.
If everyone on the group just contributed one a month, it would be
a fantastic
resource, and would grow to a respectable size very fast. I'd be
happy to
help. Not with writing recipes (which might be a bit of a
disaster) but
with editing and so on.
"Revolution Recipes". It has a nice ring to it?
See comments above. :-)
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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