Subject:
|
Re: Novice group
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.robotics
|
Date:
|
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:13:43 GMT
|
Original-From:
|
Peter Hesketh <pbh@phesk.demon%antispam%.co.uk>
|
Viewed:
|
1188 times
|
| |
|
|
In article <3715EBF6.331800CB@appstate.edu>, Thomas Main
<main@appstate.edu> writes
> There seems to be a lot of discussion about creating new groups lately.
> I would like to see a new robotics group. Don't get me wrong, there's
> nothing wrong with lugnet.robotics, but the level of most of the
> discussion in there is way over my head. I would like to see the
> creation of a robotics group that was geared toward novices.
>
> I have lots of questions about Mindstorms that I feel hesitent posting
> to lugnet.robotics because my question seems "out of place" in such a
> tech-saavy group. Also, the thread that my question generates goes over
> my head all too soon :) I think it would be nice to have a "robotics
> junior" group where kids, adults without a lot of tech experience, and
> casual Mindstorms/robotics users would feel at home. It would be great
> if the experts from lugnet.robotics could scan the group and offer
> simple, direct and to-the-point answers to the questions posed there.
> I've found this sort of experience in computer/tech-related chat rooms
> on irc and I think it would work well in LUGNET.
>
> What do others think? ...and BTW, why isn't my Acrobot flipping over :)
I'll leave your Acrobot to others, but I think that there is not enough
traffic on lego.robotics to warrant splitting it.
As long as you have read the faq, never feel afraid to ask simple
questions. And if the answer thread gets too complicated, ask people to
simplify their answers.
When doing this, it is a good idea to say something like "Being a newby,
I didn't understand your post. What is the best way to increase my
knowledge to a level where it makes sense, please? Or can someone
explain it to me in a simpler way?"
There is nothing wrong with being at the start of the learning curve (we
were all there once), and anyone who objects to simple questions
deserves to be ignored. There are a lot of us on this group who have
sufficient knowledge and time to answer simple questions, it's just that
we have been here long enough to pick up the jargon which can be
incomprehensible to some without us realising.
--
Regards - Peter Hesketh, Mynyddbach, Mon.
Forty reasons why a dog is better than a woman: number 39
"Dogs aren't catty."
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
 | | Novice group
|
| There seems to be a lot of discussion about creating new groups lately. I would like to see a new robotics group. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with lugnet.robotics, but the level of most of the discussion in there is way over my head. I (...) (26 years ago, 15-Apr-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.robotics)
|
13 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
