Re: [Tb] Starting to learn Tinderbox

I'd recommend sending this comments directly to the folks at
Eastgate. This is an unofficial mailing list, so they aren't
necessarily going to get your feedback on the list.

I agree that Tinderbox is a bit daunting to learn. For my part, I was
down and dirty programming with it straight off the bat, so I knew it
was the program for me. I also got a lot of confidence from seeing
how much information was available on the wiki and on this list.

Still, your comments are quite valid. Tinderbox takes a lot to learn,
and you may not really be able to "get it" after making a document
with so few entries.

--Nik

On Jan 29, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Thorsten Funke wrote:

> It may be that the wiki or mailing Eastgate is better for questions of
> the kind I asked, like Mark pointed out, but then I did not want to
> bother the developers with such beginners crap, not being a paying
> customer yet. And I am more used to mailing lists than to wikis, but
> that is a matter of taste.
>
> Maybe, if I do not bore anyone, a few more thoughts from a Tb newbie:
> I believe it would be easier to get people into Tb if only the demo
> would allow the creation of a bit more notes. I created a document
> called "Mastering Tinderbox" with adornments reading "got that",
> "still wondering how the heck this should work", "resources" and so
> on. As you can guess, the adornment named "still wondering how the
> heck this should work" is by far the biggest. I even added a
> background picture of Hanna Schygulla from a Fassbinder movie, which
> makes it look great. But with the ability to only create seven notes
> you cannot play around really much. At least not enough to decide how
> powerful the software really is. Maybe 30-50 notes would be better,
> then I could use Tb to actually document my quest for understanding.
> That would be fun. And this kind of "learnig Tb documents" could be
> shared among new or would-be users.
Received on Sun Jan 29 20:02:43 2006