RE: FLASH: Newbie (I hate that word) Question

[Len Harrison]

Hi David,


I gotta disagree with you (and I make my living developing training courses

for software applications). People have different learning styles. In spite

of my occupation, I personally hate to sit in a classroom and have only

slightly more patience for online tutorials and the like. In both situations

I find myself tracking in different directions from the material as it is

presented. My general sense of things is usually "I know that. It's obvious.

But how do I do this?".


What works for me is having a real world problem that needs to be solved

with the particular tool involved. That's how I learned to program Basic,

Pascal, C, dBase, SQL, Javascript, Perl, and every other programming

language I know. It's how I learned to use Photoshop, Corel, and Flash, as

well as HTML and dhtml. I like a manual, printed if possible, online if

that's all that's available. I like it to be very comprehensive, terse, and

well-indexed. Just the facts, nothing more or less. Unix man pages are my

personal documentation ideal. I tend to supplement that with online stuff

like this list, examples I can rip apart where available, and tips'n'tricks

Web pages. That's my learning style.


Fortunately it isn't everyone's or I'd be out of a career. So, if you find

classroom training useful, I'm happy. It keeps people like me in business.

But it's a big jump from there to saying everyone should learn this way. And

it just isn't so.


len harrison

instructional designer

lenhabtcorp [dot] com

> -----Original Message-----

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From: ownershocker [dot] com [ownershocker [dot] com]On">mailto:ownershocker [dot] com]On Behalf Of David

> Gary

> Sent: Friday, November 13, 1998 2:39 AM

>

To: flashershocker [dot] com

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Newbie (I hate that word) Question

>

>

>

>

> Glenn Hart wrote:

>

> > Personally - i think self leastrning with flash is the way to go - maybe

> > asking simple questions an doing some of the online tutorials - but by

> > teaching yourself - the more original your pages will be -

> maybe well wanna

> > learn a new trick from you? :-)

>

> Hi GLen, Flashers,

>

> I would like to advise anyone who is self teaching themselves any

> professional's

>

> developer tool, even with the medium learning curve that flash

> has, to always

> look for a experienced user teaching the fundamentals first.

[deletia]

> If access to lessons are available in your area, spend the money

> and learn the

> fundamentals.

> It will save you major time.

>

> My associate producer and I are going to Miami next month to take

> a 5 day crash

> course ...

[deletia]



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