Hello and welcome to all newbees
StefanL38
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Hello and welcome to all Newbees.
Feel free to post as many simple and basic questions as you like.
The members in this forum are really friendly and patient even with the
most basic questions. I often think the propeller-chip is a microcontroller
that is attractive to people that are very open-minded and therefore patient.
Please do the "medium-neewbees" a big favor and ask really basic questions that can be answered by "medium-newbees".
If you look through the threads of this forum you will find basic questions
and high advanced questions and threads. So this is a place for everyone.
From beginners learning how to code for the first time up to assembler-tweaking-freakin-freaks doing things that make the brains of other assembler-tweaking-freaks SPIN in twisted-circles ;-)
Parallax and the members of this forum always like to improve the
"feel-at-home-factor" as much as possible.
You wil NEVER get a "RTFM" (read that f... manual) as an answer.
You will get good will and direct help or a detailed hints WHERE in the manual more detailed information can be found.
So just start a new thread with a 3-20 lines description what you want to do and how far you did come and a question. In most cases it is good to add your code as attachment.
best regards
Stefan (just a simple forum member that has asked a lot of questions)
Feel free to post as many simple and basic questions as you like.
The members in this forum are really friendly and patient even with the
most basic questions. I often think the propeller-chip is a microcontroller
that is attractive to people that are very open-minded and therefore patient.
Please do the "medium-neewbees" a big favor and ask really basic questions that can be answered by "medium-newbees".
If you look through the threads of this forum you will find basic questions
and high advanced questions and threads. So this is a place for everyone.
From beginners learning how to code for the first time up to assembler-tweaking-freakin-freaks doing things that make the brains of other assembler-tweaking-freaks SPIN in twisted-circles ;-)
Parallax and the members of this forum always like to improve the
"feel-at-home-factor" as much as possible.
You wil NEVER get a "RTFM" (read that f... manual) as an answer.
You will get good will and direct help or a detailed hints WHERE in the manual more detailed information can be found.
So just start a new thread with a 3-20 lines description what you want to do and how far you did come and a question. In most cases it is good to add your code as attachment.
best regards
Stefan (just a simple forum member that has asked a lot of questions)
Comments
Thanks for making it a welcoming environment.
. . . now all I need to do is open the doors for the newbies!
- Ken
One idea is to have a "welcome-section" in a Prop-Wiki.
Then we could develop a "welcome-culture" if everybody is adding a working and fat and red printed link in his signature.
Something like
"Hello Newbees ! You are welcome !
Please read this welcome-newbee text here"
So the welcoming will be present in every posting.
What Do you think about this?
And which of the 3rd-party websites would be most suitable for that?
best regards
Stefan
(holding off, because I get tagged for long posts and I'm working on it. Really.
I started getting interested in the propellor after purchasing a quickstart board, I immediately noticed others contributing to threads regarding the quickstart and this grabbed my attention straight away, the reason, it pointed to this new product and I felt that it would be a good starting point for me as posts would be starting from scratch somewhat whereas the general propellor forum had a big headstart on me and I feel like a fish out of water sometimes.
So my thought is that parallax could perhaps start a sub forum for each piece of new kit like for instance a quickstart forum with say a human interface sub forum to that.
The similar boards like the demo board could be in the same forum.
I'm not sure if this would work or if there are reasons why this hasn't been done but the enthusiasm to progress would be there, questions would be better related to the product and as the person gains knowledge then they may feel more confident in posting in the other forums.
To clarify basically I'm talking about categorising better within the forums, so for instance in the propellor forum there would be video related stuff in one sub forum and programming techniques in another etc etc . It would mean that you could find related information a lot easier and could also stop the endless duplicated questions that are posted month to month.
NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Say it ain't so.................
FF