[Courses] Re: Courses digest, Vol 1 #60 - 1 msg

[Sonja Krause-Harder]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 02:30:54AM +0600, phiber2001 wrote:
> Well, I asked some question off the list. But seems like you didn't get it. 

I did receaive your mail, but please understand that I can't always respond
within a few hours ;-) Also, remember that I'm probably in a different time
zone than you, so sending questions to the list is always a good idea.

> So I'm sending it to the group so that everyone can benefit from it. What I 
> want to know is that how can you enable syntax coloring in vi. And there's 
> a vi tutor called vim is there anything like that for emacs? 

The vim question has already been answered. Emacs offered me a tutorial when
started "empty" the last time I saw it, but this might have been some
distribution specific thing. I don't even have emacs here, but one of the
emacs people around here may be able to tell you more. (What about
"info emacs" or something similar?)

> Again you 
> didn't talk anything about the advantages of tcl and why we would learn it 

This, again, is true. I don't want to advertise tcl, as this is not a class
on tcl, but on general programming concepts. I will use tcl for the examples,
that's why I made sure in lesson #0 that a tcl interpreter is installed.

I actually don't want to teach you any language, but to give you enough
information to learn any language you need on you own, because you've
got a mental picture of concepts that stay the same across languages.

As you are the second one with the question "why tcl?", I will include a
short summary on why I think tcl is a good language for this class in the
next lesson.

> and how long it might take, its pros and cons etc etc. And again how long 
> you want to carry this lesson, where will this lesson take us (intro, mid 
> or pro level) 

This is an introductory class, or series of articles. Where the lessons take
you depends on what you make of it. I won't promise you to get anywhere, as
this is the first time I'm "teaching" such a class. The lessons will
continue as long as there is interest and I have material I want to write
about.

> and when is the next lesson coming out (as the first one was 
> not filled in with much technical info).

I hope to get a lesson "out of the door" at least once a week.

If you feel this is to slow for you, or want to learn a specific
language, there are many tutorials available on the web that can be
done in parallel to this class. You might also be interested in the
C class running at this very moment on this list.

Hope that helped making things a bit clearer -

kind regards,

Sonja