(tutorials : "Java in Eclipse for total beginner", "Java in Eclipse : introducing persistence", "Eclipse workbench", "Eclipse Java Debugger")
Dear Mark Dexter,
Thank you for these 4 tutorials (to date). I wish to congratulate you for this magnificent work.
One word on my background, may be useful in order to assess my statements :
My programming experience includes 15 years as a programmer : Fortran,Pascal/Delphi,Prolog
english lang. understanding/reading skill : above average (in France)
this is my feed-back :
* audio
** I did appreciate your voice : relaxing and focusing tone, clear pronounciation, perfect speed
** oral explanations : repetition is important and you know it, thoroughness is equally taken care of
* subtitles or closed captions :
** it seems to me they are only present in camstudio-made videos, not in camstasia's flavor
** very useful for non-english speaking people
** save most of rewinding
** writings redondance with oral is not dispensable but in-line with cognitive research
* programming :
** choice of Test-Driven Development : good habits have to be taken early
** code
- good examples
- deliberate errors/problem solving : "what you solve you remember"
- the problem with the XML file's history as already pointed in another thread
- enhancement at the end of some series is motivating (see suggestions)
** environment learning :
- menus/short-cuts : ok,
- tips and tricks all-important ones are provided
- as a side effect of other skills learning is great
* duration : perfect
** information is dense but well "packaged" or "wrapped"
** long enough to feel not cheated
** short enough not to tire too much non-english speakers attention
Some suggestions :
* some code coud be modified :
in "Introducing persistence", something struck me : newline character sequence given "\ n" is Unix standard and not functioning on Windows (should be "\r\n"). Browsing the j ava API on SUN website, I finally found system.getproperty("line.separator"). This returns the line separator on any system. Using it will make this portion of code cross- platorm.
* Going further and making it a sibbling serie : exercices with solutions ?
* what about some of other author's tutorial refactoring/expanding : adding sound, video, side-by-side discovering ? : sadly, some experts and even some Eclipse's project leaders don't have your habilities when it comes to tutorials, voice, video, teaching.
* musical intro :
- "In the mood" fits to the tutorials tone
- frankly, banjo and fiddle reminds me of our hurdy gurdy and I'm not a big fan of it (please note some people are allergic to bag-pipes or harmonica's sound too ;) )
* I didn't see any FAq for eclipse.newcomer newsgroup : these 4 tutorials could be recommended for the first steps in Eclipse/Java world
* visibility :
I don't remember how I found these tutorials, I only remember they were not in a "beginner's package", on Eclipse. Only one tutorial is quoted on Eclipse>Ressources>Getting Started. Other's feed-back is needed for visibility improving.
First we could vote for your tutorials on live.eclipse.org so that newcomers will find them more easily.
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Hi. Thank you very much for the great feedback and kind words. I do have plans to continue with some more tutorials, and I appreciate your suggestions. As far as the visibility, I agree that it would be nice to have them all on the Getting Started link. I'll check into that.
Thanks again. Mark
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
(tutorials : "Java in Eclipse for total beginner", "Java in Eclipse : introducing persistence", "Eclipse workbench", "Eclipse Java Debugger")
Dear Mark Dexter,
Thank you for these 4 tutorials (to date). I wish to congratulate you for this magnificent work.
One word on my background, may be useful in order to assess my statements :
My programming experience includes 15 years as a programmer : Fortran,Pascal/Delphi,Prolog
english lang. understanding/reading skill : above average (in France)
this is my feed-back :
* audio
** I did appreciate your voice : relaxing and focusing tone, clear pronounciation, perfect speed
** oral explanations : repetition is important and you know it, thoroughness is equally taken care of
* subtitles or closed captions :
** it seems to me they are only present in camstudio-made videos, not in camstasia's flavor
** very useful for non-english speaking people
** save most of rewinding
** writings redondance with oral is not dispensable but in-line with cognitive research
* programming :
** choice of Test-Driven Development : good habits have to be taken early
** code
- good examples
- deliberate errors/problem solving : "what you solve you remember"
- the problem with the XML file's history as already pointed in another thread
- enhancement at the end of some series is motivating (see suggestions)
** environment learning :
- menus/short-cuts : ok,
- tips and tricks all-important ones are provided
- as a side effect of other skills learning is great
* duration : perfect
** information is dense but well "packaged" or "wrapped"
** long enough to feel not cheated
** short enough not to tire too much non-english speakers attention
Some suggestions :
* some code coud be modified :
in "Introducing persistence", something struck me : newline character sequence given "\ n" is Unix standard and not functioning on Windows (should be "\r\n"). Browsing the j ava API on SUN website, I finally found system.getproperty("line.separator"). This returns the line separator on any system. Using it will make this portion of code cross- platorm.
* Going further and making it a sibbling serie : exercices with solutions ?
* what about some of other author's tutorial refactoring/expanding : adding sound, video, side-by-side discovering ? : sadly, some experts and even some Eclipse's project leaders don't have your habilities when it comes to tutorials, voice, video, teaching.
* musical intro :
- "In the mood" fits to the tutorials tone
- frankly, banjo and fiddle reminds me of our hurdy gurdy and I'm not a big fan of it (please note some people are allergic to bag-pipes or harmonica's sound too ;) )
* I didn't see any FAq for eclipse.newcomer newsgroup : these 4 tutorials could be recommended for the first steps in Eclipse/Java world
* visibility :
I don't remember how I found these tutorials, I only remember they were not in a "beginner's package", on Eclipse. Only one tutorial is quoted on Eclipse>Ressources>Getting Started. Other's feed-back is needed for visibility improving.
First we could vote for your tutorials on live.eclipse.org so that newcomers will find them more easily.
Hi. Thank you very much for the great feedback and kind words. I do have plans to continue with some more tutorials, and I appreciate your suggestions. As far as the visibility, I agree that it would be nice to have them all on the Getting Started link. I'll check into that.
Thanks again. Mark