[Novalug] Tutorials

Anthony Soucek monkeywrenchit@gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 06:47:05 EST 2006


I  also vote in favor of beer.

Anthony

On 12/14/06, Nino Pereira <pereira@speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> Talking about tutorials, what about this very same list?
> It can be an excellent tutorial all by itself, namely, when
> the person(s) responding to a question take(s) the trouble to
> answer expansively and explicitly. A questioner then has
> the best of both worlds:  you get your immediate problem
> solved, and you learn something in the process. The latter
> is the tutorial aspect.
>
> Rather than attending a tutorial session, which takes organizing,
> scheduling attendance time and spending travel time, and finding
> some suitable venue only to learn some things that you need,
> and many things that you don't need and therefore forget (at least,
> I forget things like that), for me it makes more sense to
> give knowledgeable and willing people on this list a little
> extra incentive to write little tutorials, in response to actual
> user questions. At the moment their sole reward is
> virtual, and in the spirit of the Open Source philosophy: your
> get respect from the others in your community. But, if that's not
> enough, what about adding beer?  I, for one, would be happy to
> schlep a crate of beer into the monthly meeting in recognition
> of the excellent help I've gotten on occasion.
> Of course not everyone likes beer,
> but from what I hear many do, and those who don't should suggest
> some other item they'd be happy with (like, geekstuff).
> Some people have explicitly refused payment for their help, but
> accepted beer so that both of us can be happy.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Nino
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 19:26 -0500, Pete Nuwayser wrote:
> > On 12/14/06, gregory pryzby <greg@pryzby.org> wrote:
> > > Been there and it worked some through your Python effort and Jay's
> > > 'hands on'.
> > >
> > > That said, I would support it.
> >
> > How about a session called, "How pryzby navigates the command line and
> > vi" ?  Can't remember seeing anyone sail through bash as quickly.  I'd
> > love to learn all those shortcuts.
> >
> > Pete
> >
>
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