| From: | roger buckley |
| Date: | 18 Aug 2000 at 11:28:30 |
| Subject: | Re: Manuals (was Re: Amiga Piracy) |
Hello Jonathan
On 17-Aug-00, you wrote:
>> Tutorials in magazines must also be mainly of use to owners
>> of pirate copies, unless the manual is bad.
>
> Or if like me and you have little imagination, tutorials are great. They
> give you something to do/aim for. And if the mags include (with a 3D tutes
> for example) the objects at various stages, animations, finished renders etc
> on cover CDs they are even better.
>
> You learn much more by doing rather than reading. Many manuals state how to
> do something, but a well written tute (hi Andy Kinsella :-) ) provides
> examples of when to do something too and the consequences there of.
>
A good tutorial is an extension of the manual and many programs aren't used to
their full potential until you see the tute and think, yeah I could do that.
>
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