Trap Valentina license time limit - where is the documentation
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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.
>
>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.
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>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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