RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)

[France Baril <France -dot- Baril -at- ixiasoft -dot- com>]

Most graphic designer use Lingo(Director), actionscript(Flash), javascript and html. There is really no need to teach C++ or java. The main goal here is to make sure they can code simple stuff, if they need to, and understand how their job can be done in a way that will make life easier for programmers. Most of them really have no intention to become programmers.

-----Original Message-----
From: John Posada [mailto:JPosada -at- book -dot- com]
Sent: 9 juin, 2003 12:19
To: France Baril; TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Education (Was Re: Techwriting After the Boom)


> I teach Lingo programming to future graphic designers. Lingo 
> will be used by very very few of them, so I hear them 
> complaining all the time. I tell them the logic behind it is 
> the same for every programming language. 

Instead of them learning Lingo, and hoping that they make the correlation
between Lingo and "every other programming language", why not directly teach
them the logic behind programming languages?

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
jposada -at- book -dot- com
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