Subj : Class request
To : Lord Steel
From : PistolGrip
Date : Sun Oct 21 2001 03:21 pm
RE: Class request
BY: Lord Steel to Finnigann on Sun Oct 21 2001 05:40 pm
> > If Angus isn't interested... he prolly wont reply. Rob is different,
> > sometimes he's very helpful and other times he's a bit cryptic. I would
> > imagine that a new family takes up a lot of his time. So I don't expect
> > him to reply with a long message about one thing or another.
> >
> > However we do have a few other folks that can and do code in BaJa.
> > Pistolgrip made a contribution already.
>
> Rob, he teaches by pointing you to the right direction and if you really wan
> to learn you will find it and then he expect you to ask the next logical
> question so he knows you understand.
I agree, Rob has a good way of teaching things. He may not always give you
100% of the answer right away, but he does point in the direction you need to
go to teach yourself. This is much better than having someone give you the
answer, now you know the answer but you're still no better off then you were
before. I also imagine Rob gets bombarded with questions (sometimes stupid
ones), judging solely by the amount of SBSB related emails I get here.
> Pistolgrip, I saw how his Baja works..wow...but I don't know how he teaches
> yet.
Well, I'll teach in what ever manner is best for that particular student. But,
I will give one warning now. I'm not going to get too in-depth with my BAJA
examples because with the new JS support in Synchronet I will personally be
moving away from BAJA and coding in JS for the BBS. But, I did want to try and
give some examples I thought some of you may find useful.
BAJA is both a surprisingly easy language to learn, and a fairly powerful
language. There are however a couple key programming components missing from
it, which can make doing certain things much harder than other languages. This
is why I would encourage most of you looking beyond a simple command shell and
toward a program-like application to learn JS instead. Some things are much
easier to do in JS. But, JS does have a higher learning curve.
