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From: Darco <darco@bigfoot.com>
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Subject: Darco's Newbie Tutorials
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 07:52:06 -0400
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I'll be writing a newbie tutorial (A tutorial for newbies) so that
newbies like Chris Ramirez and Tranvir Khan can learn faster. I'm
modeling it after the type of tutorial that I learn best from.

The tutorial will be in HTML format, will be fully illistrated(Screen
shots, flow charts, etc.), and of course will include example code.
Heck, I might even run spell check on it. ;)

Nearly every PlayStation term will be hyper linked to it's definition in
the glossary so if you don't understand a word you there's no excuse not
to look it up. Just click on it.

I'll start work on it this weekend. Here is a list of what's going to be
on it when I'm finished. There's probably going to be allot more on
there. If you can think of anything else that needs to be in there, just
tell me.

Now, Eventually I'll have this organized into a very orderly outline
that you will see from the title screen. But for now it's just a jumble:

1) Hardware diagrams and explanations
2) The PlayStation address space (An explanation of)
3) Memory Management
4) A Glossary
5) Using GCC effectively
6) Using CodeWarrior effectively
7) How to use MAKE
8) Ordering tables
9) Logical code layout (Tips for making readable and modular code)
10) Your first yaroze program
11) An explanation of VRAM
12) Working with VRAM

Blah blah blah... There allot more than I can think of but i have to be
at school in 15 minutes.

The reason I'm writing this is because I don't think that there are any
tutorials out there that really teach something. No offense to George
Bain or anyone, I've used those tutorials and learned allot from them. 
But just giving a newbie code isn't going to make them learn anything.
Without an explanation, they'll just cut and paste code and then ask why
it doesn't work. This tutorial will have more explanation than code. 

Perhaps I should give all the example code in pascal to force them to
re-write it themselves. :) That is the best way I've seen to learn
something; to re-write it.

I'm not going to do that though, that's too mean to those who don't have
a sure footing in C.

But anyway, any input would be greatly appreciated. 

'Darco