@ Marco I have visited your site and will be purchasing your book. Once the site I am working on is up, I will promote it there.
However, the point I was trying to make was that people are intimidated by what they don't understand.
When Drew writes
“Even non-programmers can learn enough to recognize functions and variables”
To non Geeks it may as well read
“Even non-programmers can learn enough to recognize fluba fluba and bluba bluba”
It is just as baffling (and intimidating) to complete non Geeks.
If Alice, for example, has a small holding where she grows organic crops, she may need a vehicle to get her produce to the local farmers market. She relies upon a vehicle manufacture to create the vehicle and a mechanic to maintain it.
However, beyond changing the oil water etc. Alice has no desire, inclination or passion to become either a vehicle manufacturer or a mechanic.
She wants to concentrate on providing other valuable services to man kind which is HER passion. The vehicle is merely an essential tool to assist in achieving her goals.
In the FOSS community you have Geeks talking to other Geeks and wannabe Geeks. I put myself in the later category.
I'll sum up with this example.
Instead of scaring the pants off of of non Geeks (normal people) by instructing them to run the ps and kill commands through the terminal. Advise instead (or also if you like) to put the system monitor in the desktop panel and when ever Fire Fox freezes up, end the process GUI style with a simple couple of clicks.
With this approach we may then see, the ever elusive, year of the Linux desktop.
Another benefit to the FOSS community will be that it will attract more Geeks or budding Geeks from a larger user base.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 91.104.9.252] on September 17, 2008 12:04 PMI have found Douglas Crockford's series of videos easily digestible and an excellent intro to Javascript.
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@ Marco I have visited your site and will be purchasing your book. Once the site I am working on is up, I will promote it there.
However, the point I was trying to make was that people are intimidated by what they don't understand.
When Drew writes
“Even non-programmers can learn enough to recognize functions and variables”
To non Geeks it may as well read
“Even non-programmers can learn enough to recognize fluba fluba and bluba bluba”
It is just as baffling (and intimidating) to complete non Geeks.
If Alice, for example, has a small holding where she grows organic crops, she may need a vehicle to get her produce to the local farmers market. She relies upon a vehicle manufacture to create the vehicle and a mechanic to maintain it.
However, beyond changing the oil water etc. Alice has no desire, inclination or passion to become either a vehicle manufacturer or a mechanic.
She wants to concentrate on providing other valuable services to man kind which is HER passion. The vehicle is merely an essential tool to assist in achieving her goals.
In the FOSS community you have Geeks talking to other Geeks and wannabe Geeks. I put myself in the later category.
I'll sum up with this example.
Instead of scaring the pants off of of non Geeks (normal people) by instructing them to run the ps and kill commands through the terminal. Advise instead (or also if you like) to put the system monitor in the desktop panel and when ever Fire Fox freezes up, end the process GUI style with a simple couple of clicks.
With this approach we may then see, the ever elusive, year of the Linux desktop.
Another benefit to the FOSS community will be that it will attract more Geeks or budding Geeks from a larger user base.
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