[Lazarus] Documentation and Help for Lazarus (content)

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, waldo kitty wrote:

> Martin wrote:
>> Another thing about the help. And i feel bad about saying this, because I 
>> really appreciate the effort that was made. And criticizing it without 
>> having contributed seems all wrong.
>> Never the mind, since we talk about it, I feel it should be mentioned
>
> thank you very much, martin, for posting that... i have been fighting with 
> myself for a long while how to approach the topic... many things that are 
> documented are pretty terse and do not carry easy to understand explanations 
> of their who, what, why, where, and when aspects... yes, even some "good" 
> book on programming topics are hard to understand but still... perhaps a step 
> back to the early days and simpler times is needed? that and maybe someone 
> who understands geek but doesn't speak geek should be involved to "average 
> joe" the documentation?
>
> i also hope that this current effort on developing a help system also carries 
> over to the Lazarus and FPC projects so that they do end up with good offline 
> documentation that budding programmers can easily understand, follow and 
> learn from...

Well, The Lazarus book is nearing it's completion. It's meant for starters.
Since it's in German, this will unfortunately be useful only for German
speaking programmers...

Michael.