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Alessio
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Some here are truly super biased, seriously! Probably they forgot seriously they were beginners too. Sorry for saying that.
If you don't feel like helping newbies because you think they're lazy, don't help them, someone else will, be sure, so you're not fixing any problem. If you expect people from becoming little Einsteines with your totally abstract explanation, don't dismiss them because there may something wrong with your explanation. If someone asks for help but was actually asking for copy and paste examples, why do you care? Give them anyway if you feel like to, that's their problem otherwise. You're worrying too much on people and you may not even know their actual intentions. And tutorials aren't pointless. Not many novices, i'd argue, are insolent jerks only begging for code, let's face it.
Can't disagree more with the ones who tells "read all the GM docs" to beginners. It's just too much info and some parts may be totally pointless to you. When it's about the basics i can agree, it's not too mucn to read and having a refresh of them may help but then they'll be useful only when you're going to use them. That's why there are tutorials and the docs used together with the tutorials are super-effective. But the docs alone don't do anything, you're be going to check it continuously because it's just a bunch of info you can't always remember.
With this kind of reasoning a newbie Autodesk Maya user should be reading the entire docs. Here you go, the Maya's user guide! The most likely reaction, something i'd not be surprised at all, would be like this one:
Or simply anything you can find here.
Seriously, everyone should learn in the way they like best. It's not up to you to decide how i will be learning stuff. People struggle and aren't always lazy. And everyone is different from each other.
If you don't feel like helping newbies because you think they're lazy, don't help them, someone else will, be sure, so you're not fixing any problem. If you expect people from becoming little Einsteines with your totally abstract explanation, don't dismiss them because there may something wrong with your explanation. If someone asks for help but was actually asking for copy and paste examples, why do you care? Give them anyway if you feel like to, that's their problem otherwise. You're worrying too much on people and you may not even know their actual intentions. And tutorials aren't pointless. Not many novices, i'd argue, are insolent jerks only begging for code, let's face it.
Can't disagree more with the ones who tells "read all the GM docs" to beginners. It's just too much info and some parts may be totally pointless to you. When it's about the basics i can agree, it's not too mucn to read and having a refresh of them may help but then they'll be useful only when you're going to use them. That's why there are tutorials and the docs used together with the tutorials are super-effective. But the docs alone don't do anything, you're be going to check it continuously because it's just a bunch of info you can't always remember.
With this kind of reasoning a newbie Autodesk Maya user should be reading the entire docs. Here you go, the Maya's user guide! The most likely reaction, something i'd not be surprised at all, would be like this one:
Or simply anything you can find here.
Seriously, everyone should learn in the way they like best. It's not up to you to decide how i will be learning stuff. People struggle and aren't always lazy. And everyone is different from each other.