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From: rsb@dukeac.UUCP (R. Scott Bartlett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga TUTOR was on release 1.1 Extras Disk
Keywords: Intro TUTOR training 1.1
Message-ID: <1232@dukeac.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 00:54:46 GMT
References: <5877@cbmvax.UUCP> <3382@sugar.uu.net> <1223@dukeac.UUCP> <370@ssbell.UUCP> <5806@super.ORG>
Reply-To: rsb@dukeac.UUCP (R. Scott Bartlett)
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Organization: Center for Demographic Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC
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In article <5806@super.ORG> rminnich@brainiac.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>In article <370@ssbell.UUCP> dale@ssbell.UUCP (0000-Dale Miller) writes:
>>The Extras disk that came with release 1.1 for the Amiga included a very
>>nice tutor on the Intro to the Amiga.  That in fact starts with the
>>mouse or item that you selected to look at.  It did a nice job of
>People keep saying nice things about this program, and i don't know why.
>It stunk as a tutor. Tutors shouldn't take 5 minutes to start up.
>They shouldn't take most of your machine to run. They should be 
>summonable at any time, be small and fast, and help you out. 
	-->This would be nice too, but as a seperate program.
>  As a demo vehicle for venture capital or manager types i am 
>sure it was wonderful. It was absolutely worthless as a tutor 
>or aid. I hated it and my non-amiga-literate father hated it; it 
>didn't help him at all. 
>  Good riddance, i say. There's still too much of this semi-professional
>stuff on the disks that just make the Amiga look silly. 
>ron

The above reasons are EXACTCLY why i did not even mention the amiga-tutor.  It
was not a tutor at all.  Think about how the Intro to Mac software works, you
insert the disk, and presto! it's there up and running just waiting to teach
you about the Mac.  The amiga tutor required prior knowlege about how to use a
mouse.
	I am talking about a program which is the first disk inserted into the
machine by a neophyte (sp?).  The program would boot itself up, and show the
new user how to use the Amiga from start to finish (including how to point and
click with the mouse!)  The program should use snazzy graphics AND sound to
teach the neophyte user the basic elements of how to use the amiga.  From there
it should progress to teach about the CLI and maybe EMACS (it is included after
all).  This program could include a special section on new features, that can be
executed seperately, for those that just want to find out how to use the new
goodies included with the operating system.  The whole point of this program is
to eliminate some of the documentation (if not all of it).  The only
documentation needed in paper form would be instuctions on how to assemble the
machine, how to insert the tutorial disk, and how to turn on the machine.  Neat
huh?

The question is "Why isn't this here already?" or "Why don't we do it
ourselves?"

						rsb


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