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Cris:
I am in the same position that you are in.
I need instructions like those in the old recipe for roast wild turkey.
"First you clean and load your musket, then you go out and shoot a wild
turkey". Too often I get recipes that start with "put the turkey on the
oven for X hours". Heck I don't even know where and how the turkey go
into the roasting pan, not to mention when it got cleaned and stuffed.
:))
The best documentation is usually made by tech writers not programmers.
The tech writers should be brought in the project at the beginning. Its
much cheaper that way. There will be fewer bugs and online help that
refers to nothing in the program.
Regards
Lionel
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Campbell [mailto:chris.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 6:58 PM
To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: ANNOUNCEMENT - PowerScan Beta 1.21
available
Hi Yuki
you are spot on ,it sounds as if you are talking about me. Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Yuki Taga [mailto:yukitaga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, 4 June 2003 5:54 PM
To: DIMITRIS TSOKAKIS
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re: ANNOUNCEMENT - PowerScan Beta 1.21
available
Hi DT,
Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 8:51:50 PM, you wrote:
DT> I still believe that AFL should reach directly the average user.
I agree, and I think TJ would too, because that is certainly where the
bulk of the market is.
So, how does this happen? Maybe I'm a good person to make a suggestion
here, because perhaps I typify the "average user" in many respects.
I am a non-programmer. I think most people are non-programmers (at
least, people who are not natives of India). ^^_^^ For me, there are
two difficulties. First, coming up with the algorithm that will do what
I want is not easy at all for me. Some good examples of how to do this
would be appreciated by the many non-programmer types out there, I'm
sure. It takes a good deal of time and energy to get into this mode of
thinking. Some short course would be helpful. Once I have the algorithm
(and this is often *more* than half the battle), I have to translate
that to AFL. Sometimes, the former is much harder than the latter,
although when you really get complex the latter is no picnic either.
So, to reach the "average user", I think some good explanations of how
to approach finding the right algorithm are in order, full of easy to
understand examples that get progressively more complex. Then an
explanation of how to go from algorithm to AFL is in order.
A lot of programmers try and teach the language before they have taught
algorithm solving. That's because to them finding the algorithm is
rather automatic. Years and years of practice and thinking that way
have made it rather automatic. But to non-programmers unused to finding
algorithms to solve problems, this is often the most difficult step.
You want to learn the language, of course. But until you know how to
come up with good algorithms, the language alone won't do you much good.
My experiences traveling down this troublesome highway, anyway.
Best,
Yuki
P.S. I think this is what is most difficult about "Help files". Mostly,
they are written by programmers, and they assume you know way too much.
^_-
I think a lot of people ask for help not so much because they can't
master the language, but because they can't come up with the algorithm
that will do what they want to do. Maybe I'm wrong, but that is my
personal experience and take on this.
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