On Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 1:14:45 AM UTC-8, dangne...@juno.com wrote: [...] > > Side Note: I just watched a series of 5 videos that somebody put on you > tube, a presentation Massimo did a while back, and I am happy that I will > be able to copy what he did and tweak it to adapt it to my needs. This > templating from completed/tested packages is how programming should be > taught in my opinion because it is motivating to know that your code should > work. >
And it works because the examples are simple enough, and you may already have the vocabulary needed to understand what is being said. Web2Py is in a very special position in that regards. > In fact this is the scientific method: make one change at a time and > observe the results. Vs. the university "prerequisite mode" which filters > out impatient people like me who won't sit still for the long way of > getting it done by learning how to read minds of teachers who dole out info > one drop at a time and make you play guessing games. Some very smart people > can't learn that way, but rather need working examples and complete > instructions. > And others need to have a very strong grounding in the vocabulary and the simplest of lego bricks before they can build cottages, much less castles. Getting to a point where you can appreciate Web2Py may be a significant climb. > Thanks to rare philanthropic geniuses like Massimo we can all get to the > starting gate a lot quicker and start making things happen. > Glad it worked for you. /dps -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
