Trap Valentina license time limit - where is the documentation hypelinks

Steve Albin steve at steve-albin.com
Fri Jul 6 17:29:23 CDT 2007


On Friday, July 6, 2007 steveja7 at earthlink.net (Steve Albin) wrote:

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>On Friday, July 6, 2007 listaccount at starionline.com (Jeff Justice) wrote:
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>>I think there is another factor here that has been missed.  Yes,  
>>things may be acceptable to you "Valentina Old Timers" out there, but  
>>I am a Valentina newbie.
>>
>>Newbies need good documentation.  We need hand-holding some times.   
>>More newbies = more instances of Valentina out there in the world.   
>>If the product has such a steep learning curve that newbies don't  
>>want to touch it or take the time to figure it out by trial and error  
>>in the absence of good documentation, then old-timers are the only  
>>market Paradigma will ever reach.  Maybe that's what they want, I  
>>don't know.
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>The "old timers" didn't just appear out of thin air.  We were all newbies at one time.  We all got 
>the hand holding on this list as we muddled through the docs.  
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>I agree it is not easy.  I struggled a lot with Valentina when I started, but much of it was 
>because it was a different concept in programming for me, not just that the docs were not great.  
>
>Also, with other languages and products, there is often a third party book that explains things 
>better.  The same problem with docs  plagued me with REALbasic until Matt Neuberg wrote his book.  
>
>
>Steve
>
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