How do you learn best?
First posted 2006-07-22 00:00:00.000005+00:00
Once I have finished my summer job (hopefully sometime early August) I plan to spend some of my mountains of free time (ahem) writing some tutorials and guides for web related topics (probably setting up LAMP, and Javascript). I've done a little technical tutorial writing in the past but not much, so I would appreciate any tips that people have on how to do it well.
In particular I would like to know whether you prefer to learn using self-contained examples that do useful things, but uses code features that have not yet been introduced, or whether you prefer starting with simple code fragments that don't do very much (e.g. Hello World!) and then using new features as they are introduced.
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