13 Dec
2010
13 Dec
'10
6:40 p.m.
In article <4D05B76B.3080100 at brouhaha.com>,
Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> writes:
For everyone that isn't being obtuse, my point was
that typing in code
is not going to be very successful if the person doing the typing
doesn't have some familiarity with the material.
If you approach it as "dump a bunch of listings in their face and lock
them in a room with noone to talk to", then yeah. (Reminds me of an
old Dick Van Dyke episode where he's laid off for the summer and has
to write marketing fluff for radio rectifier tubes.)
However, if you write an instruction guide and give a brief tutorial
on how to do this successfully, then it doesn't take knowledge of
assembly language, the 6800 mnemonics, or even Tektronix's crazy
mixing of assembly and BASIC.
This *isn't* rocket science and it *doesn't* require special knowledge
of computers to do properly. It does, however, produce much better
results with a little instruction and guidance.
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