Ok lets keep things simple. We want to make this a place where people can learn. For those who think "its too simple" , "there are too many out there" well we do not force you to do anything here. Number 2, delta is a team and we work as a team enhancing each others induvidual talent and so we think it is rather "productive" if only to bring out that talent in them. Third we have other goals in making people write them for example as means to choose next years core so if you have something to contribute in a field you are good at we would appreciate it but i personally wont tolerate counter productive posts.
And when you have come up with your view its only fair we come up with ours in the same thread as well. So next time if you think theres a better thing to do we encourage you to do it but not order others around on what to do.
In a line people can contribute what they see fit. What they think will help the first years get a grip on what they are doing. What they think they know and can provide help in ... lets keep it that way!
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Siddhant Sanyam
<siddh...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think writing tutorials about PHP, MySQL, C++, HTML, CSS etc... is
just waste of precious time.
Hacker's culture (again, `hacker' according to Eric Raymond's New
Hacker's Dictionary and not the popular meaning of hacker as security
breakers) evolved because we believed in `not reinventing the wheel
twice, and if inventing it, then doing it in a better way'.
Writing tutorials on these topic is just like `reinventing the wheel'.
Everyone knows that there are a lot of good tutorials/article
pre-existing on the Internet available at zero cost. In such scenario,
writing tutorial about these would an exercise in futile.
Rather than writing tutorials, I think providing external pointers to
the already existent documentation would be the wise thing to do. If
anyone is not able to grasp any concept, they might be allowed to get
entertained on online chat, newsgroup or forums, where help could be
provided.
[Siddhant Sanyam]
Optionally readable part of the message (since few may think my posts
are long; the following can be safely ignored if you are not in habbit
of reading long posts):
(*) A more important aspect of the Hacker's attitude is certainly using
a search engine to find the information they need. The most important
art is perhaps ``how to teach self" using non-humane resources like the
Internet and a search engine like Google's.
(*)Although, writing on the same old topics may be a wonderful exercise
to the author himself, would serve no valuable purpose to the reader. I
am not discouraging writing over here, but only pointing out that if you
are writing about pre-written topics, make sure that what you write is
better than what has being written.
(*) Writing on straight forward topic is not productive. Instead,
writing on real-life experiences like live projects, uncommon
situations, tips-tricks may fit into the genre of short articles very
well.
(*) At last, all the above which has being written is my opinion guided
by my limited knowledge and experience. Any debatable post against these
should be kept away from the current thread and is best addressed to my
mail box. It'll be appreciable.