[Gandalf Parker]

I much prefer teaching, public speaking, doing demos, customer support work, living in webforums or newsGroups for a company, generally translating tech to english. THEY keep trying to make me a programmer or a systems administrator or an IT manager just because I could do those if they could convince me to want to.

The fact that I prefer teaching to teching means I often hear snide remarks from hacklers saying "those who can, do. And those who cant, teach." I usually respond with "I have no problem with that because from what I have seen... Those who can, cant teach."

I bring this up in order to ask... do you really want a manual written by programmers? I mean, they can do it of course. Part of the problem is that they will know the game so well that they will have problems even thinking about WHAT a new learner will have trouble understanding.

If we are lucky they will get some literary friend to learn the game from the beginning and take good notes. Then ask questions from the programmers. Then translate those answers into the common toungue and write a manual. Unless they know someone who is specifically good at teaching this is going to be the problem. The manual that goes out with the game should not be written by anyone who KNOWS the game. It should be written by someone who learned it.

This is Internet. If its lacking, then why arent you doing it?

[ October 17, 2003, 19:50: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]