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Re: lecture topics (was: Re: Should I ask Sivan Toledo <sivan@math.tau.ac.il>for a classr oomon Thursday, May 4th?)



On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, guy keren wrote:

> you may safely assume that in 2 hours, no one will turn into a Gtk+ or
> gnome developer. 

Hmm.....I've turned into a Gtk+/GNOME developer in 2 hours...
(But I have programmed Tk before)

> now, a general problem is people having different background. some have
> never programmed under any windowing environment. some have done that
> under various environments.  thus, you should first choose which of the
> two groups you are addressing this lecture to. 

I doubt there's such a difference in the  stuff I have to teach (of
course, turning those ideas into code will be helped by experience). I do
wish to assume expereince programming in C, because it will help
immensely. (Of course, I do most of my Gtk programming in Python, but
most of the documentation is about the C binding, and new widgets can 
only be added in C)

> another question is whether you intend for this to be a multi-lectures
> series, or a one lecture only

Currently, this is supossed to be a single lecture, to show the general
architecture. The assumption is that if someone wants something more
in-depth, he might as well read the docs...

> my own suggestion would be to start up with a single lecture, more or less
> in the format you've wrote about in one of your previous postings, and
> with a set of links to related documentation in the final slide. then,
> place the slides on linux.org.il's web site.

The GNOME team did it much better: http://developer.gnome.org/docs/

I'm hoping to be able to give future lectures on other topics.
--
Moshe Zadka <mzadka@geocities.com>. 
http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html
http://www.linux.org.il -- we put the penguin in .com


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