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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xhibition (a short flame)
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Date: 3 Sep 88 03:29:14 GMT
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In article <6936@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> ackerman@athena.mit.edu (Mark S. Ackerman) writes:
>
>My point is this:  if you've been programming X for a long time, don't go
>to a beginning tutorial.  Jordan, I've certainly seen your name on this
>list enough - with enough good questions and comments - to expect that
>you'll get much out of a tutorial.  Especially one as impersonal as 

Actually, strangely enough, Mark's "How to write a widget" tutorial
was the one class I did want to go to. The fact that it became
quickly full (and that I didn't really want to lay out the extra $300
and vacillated too long) were the only things that prevented
me from doing so. As it was, I didn't attend any of the classes
and only had my girlfriend's opinion of the Xlib tutorial (and she
is a beginner) to go on, vis-a-vis the class scene. My major
complaints were with the seminars. I agree with Mark totally
when he says that there should be a division between the novice
and "xpert" classes/seminars/propaganda-sessions at any future
event of this nature.

I do think I would have learned something at the widget tutorial.
I haven't spent that much time using the toolkit.

				- Jordan