Pic_User
- 24th June 2007, 16:41
Thank you to everyone who tries to help us learn, on this forum.
Thanks for your time effort and patience.
Even if you are helping a beginner to blink an LED, the post stays here for the next 1000 readers to learn from.
The legacy of information, stored here is the bigger value.
Every post explaining how to “invent a wheel”, causes future learners not to be hung-up on that particular hurtle.
If one person asks, there are and will be others with exactly the same type of question.
The forum, is extremely valuable to everyone involved.
This is why it is not so instructive to say “look at your green” or “blue book”. As the manuals change over the future years, saying, “see page 31 paragraph 7.5”, becomes useless.
Some of the “answer givers”, are suspicious of where someone, got their PBC or PBP software.
They have taken a course of policing “bootleg copies” by cryptically saying, to look at certain chapter, paragraph “if you have it”.
This might work if there was no HTML or PDF copies freely available.
It seems that being a policeman is outside the scope of what is expected here. Even if the question comes from an unconfirmed PicBASIC licensee, the answer is valuable to all. It is good practice to insert enough information to solve the problem, AND a reference to where the information came from. This makes the forum valuable as a stand alone reference.
Let’s try to keep the bigger picture in mind. I would help more, but my programming experience is non-existent.
Again, Thank you to everyone who makes this forum a real-time PicBASIC lifesaver and a repository of information for years to come. Thanks also to Crownhill Associates, Lester, the administrators and assistant administrators. The amount of collective effort is amazing.
My opinion,
-Adam-
Thanks for your time effort and patience.
Even if you are helping a beginner to blink an LED, the post stays here for the next 1000 readers to learn from.
The legacy of information, stored here is the bigger value.
Every post explaining how to “invent a wheel”, causes future learners not to be hung-up on that particular hurtle.
If one person asks, there are and will be others with exactly the same type of question.
The forum, is extremely valuable to everyone involved.
This is why it is not so instructive to say “look at your green” or “blue book”. As the manuals change over the future years, saying, “see page 31 paragraph 7.5”, becomes useless.
Some of the “answer givers”, are suspicious of where someone, got their PBC or PBP software.
They have taken a course of policing “bootleg copies” by cryptically saying, to look at certain chapter, paragraph “if you have it”.
This might work if there was no HTML or PDF copies freely available.
It seems that being a policeman is outside the scope of what is expected here. Even if the question comes from an unconfirmed PicBASIC licensee, the answer is valuable to all. It is good practice to insert enough information to solve the problem, AND a reference to where the information came from. This makes the forum valuable as a stand alone reference.
Let’s try to keep the bigger picture in mind. I would help more, but my programming experience is non-existent.
Again, Thank you to everyone who makes this forum a real-time PicBASIC lifesaver and a repository of information for years to come. Thanks also to Crownhill Associates, Lester, the administrators and assistant administrators. The amount of collective effort is amazing.
My opinion,
-Adam-