Re: FLASH: A word about tutorials

[Kenneth C. Sherwood]

Timothy Palmer-Benson wrote:


> Hi everybody:

> I have no wish to start a flame war and am quite willing to bow out. It

> seems I have happened on a list that it higher than my level.


Not at all! You just need to get to know and accept the personalities around

here.


> I would

> however like to make these comments:

>

> 1. Flash is advertised as being suitable for computer users with

> intermediate level experience.


A *very* vague phrase, "intermediate experience".


> It is the forerunner of products that WILL

> necessarily be easier to learn!


Absolutely. The difficult learning curve for Flash is one of the bugs in it

that haven't been worked out yet.


> 2. I work with people who are 20 years younger than I, and they too are

> having difficulty understanding things!


Especially Flash, I'll bet.


But there is a lot of resource to be found *here*.


> 3. Just like Javascript tutorials, Flash tutorials need to be perfected if

> they are to be understood by a larger audience. That means running them by

> people like me who will stumble all over the potato patch.


And after you've mastered Flash, it seems to me that you might be the ideal

candidate, given your initial experiences, to create such a set of tutorials,

whether it be on the Web or in a book, or on a CD, or any combination

thereof. Don't you agree?


> I do not think it useful for me to say anymore. Obviously, I have inflamed

> some people, and I am sorry if I have trampled on feelings. So, I will

> become a lurker until I understand more.


Hope that means you'll come back tomorrow.


Sincerely,


Ken Sherwood


p.s. I'm an excellent writer *and* proofreader. Wanna team up on something

about this?



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