[Bsod-mentors] Finalisation

[bsod at hiddenworlds.org]

Firstly, Stephen, I apologise for the last email, it was not exactly
tactful, and I had forgotten you guys were on the list.

In response to your remarks, I understand life's penchant for ruining
plans.   Though it still bothers me that no communication occured, a
single email would have made our lives considerably easier.

As for python tutorials, I definitely understand the difficulty with
writing for an audience that probably has no real coding experience whilst
still teaching something useful. For everyones info, I've created a site
specifically for blender python at http://blenderpython.org which has a
wiki on it as well as a few tutorials I've started.  I took a slightly
different approach to Stephen, in that I went for teaching Blender's
database first then structuring things off that.  At any rate, I would
also like to port Stephen's docs over to this site, or have him/you :S do
it.  Anyone who would like to participate is free to do so, the wiki
requires being logged in to edit, but be careful where you put things, I'm
trying to keep the structure clean so look at the currentpathes if anyone
is going to add anything.

After considering this quite a lot today (while i should have been
working) I'm a yes for Stephen' project, regardless of the issues I have,
it is a good resource and one that will no doubt get a fair bit of use.

Tim

>
>> Stephen's pains me...I'm not entirely sure.  I must say that to some
>> degree I'm a bit pissed with the lack of communication on his part, I
>> spent the first 3 weeks hounding him to put stuff on the wiki and he
>> still
>> didn't, and his project didn't turn up till quite late, I don't know.
>
> Certainly a valid criticism.  I will say I find the process of
> constantly updating WIP wiki text annoying.  As a lame defense, I
> plead interference from real world events + storm damage and untimely
> power and network outages.
>
>> The
>> other point is that it really doesn' hit the targeted audience, but that
>> alone won't completely decide it for me, I can see work went into it,
>> but
>> it is very much too light on for a complete beginner.  I think this
>> needs
>> further discussion.
>
> This is something that I haven't heard yet from anyone. ( yeah, yeah,
> if I had been around more...)  Bear in mind that this is an intro to
> scripting Blender and not a complete intro to Python.  Doing the
> beginner's tutorial on python.org is considered a pre- or at least a
> co-requisite.  In any case, completely outside the question of BSOD
> approval, I would like to discuss this further.
>
> Stephen
>
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> Stephen Swaney
> sswaney at centurytel.net
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