RE: encouraging learning by experimentation?

[Lois Patterson <skycerulean -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

>From what I understood, Hackos suggested using the
technique in documentation as well. However, I
obviously don't have a cite. Another thing she
mentioned about user docs was not spelling out to the
user how to do particular simple tasks, as this would
encourage the user to figure it out on his own.

Lois Patterson

--- Lisa Wright <liwright -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
> Lois,
> I've done this in training materials and tutorials,
> but never in user
> documentation. If I remember from the Hackos
> seminar, which I attended
> earlier this year, wasn't that the context for this
> particular
> technique?
> 
> Lisa 


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