On Friday 13 August 2004 10:30 am, tim hall wrote: > Last Friday 13 August 2004 00:18, jjbenham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx was like: > > Is there any other way to learn how to use a program other than just > > reading through all the code? I could ask the developers to explain it to > > me but after that the might as well have wrote the docs themselves. > > Yeah, you start the application up, click on all the buttons to see what > they do, crash it a couple of times and then discover the help files. ;-] > > The way you do it is far superior. > Sounds like he's doing it that way out of desperation. > A combination of the two approaches - Intuitive + logical + asking the > developers when it doesn't make sense is probably the surest way to come up > with documentation. I don't read code at all, but if we worked together, > hypothetically, we'd be able to cover most angles. > > That's what I like about WIKI, someone like me can set up an > intuitive-oriented framework and get the experts to fill in the details and > make corrections. Well that's the theory. > Shoot me a link if you have one, I'd like to see how you're setting things up. Maybe my opinion is based on primitive lay outs. > cheers > > tim hall
