[DogParkList] Mac Develper Reflector

[Peter Van Houten]

Hello Guys:

I would love to get my feet wet in Mac Programming but have only a  
little time and no books or mentors to help answer stupid questions  
that all newbees ask. It is rather intimidating to the new programer  
or Ham. If the web site is run with a helpful attitude to all, then it  
will be very successful in producing new programmers for Ham radio.

I do not like the "It's in the manual" answer to my stupid questions  
as I have already looked there and the explanation is lacking in  
detail or examples. This answer is really designed to cut off further  
questions as any programmer is tired of answering stupid questions.  
This also cuts off the flow of new ideas however. As users of the  
program, we owe it to the writer of the manual and the programmer to  
look there first and reference where you looked to find the answer in  
the manual but it did not complete the question. This would point out  
where the manual is lacking or where the program is being used in a  
manner other than the programmer intended. As a newer Ham, I stopped  
asking questions and did not interact on the site as I got this kind  
of answer from various programmers as my question shows not only a  
lack of understanding of how to do things with the program on my part  
and showed gaps in my knowledge as a newbee. The new user is learning  
the fundamentals of Amateur radio and how to run the program. In this  
sense, a great manual is not just a "How to use this" book but also  
should contain the assumptions and some of the fundamentals of why "we  
do this this  way in ham radio". If the web site can provide a  
nurturing environment for the new and veteran programmer, then it will  
be a success. Some of the solutions to recurrent problems are buried  
in the archives of any site. The solutions to recurrent problems need  
to be summarized and placed in "educational web pages". The site can  
be a kind of a programmers manual that is live and changing.

Count me "IN" and let me know how I can help.

73 Peter
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Peter Van Houten
252-758-2617 x210 Voice mail
252-412-8115 cell
mailto: KG4WEZ at mac.com
http://www.qsl.net/kg4wez
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On Oct 9, 2008, at 11:09 AM, dogparklist-request at dogparksoftware.com  
wrote:


>

> One other idea, any interest in a ham-mac-developer reflector? A place

> where newbies and veterans can help one another? Perhaps that will be

> one of the additions to the machamradio site.