[Interest] query about QT textbooks

[André Somers]

Op 11-4-2012 13:55, Mark Griffith schreef:
>
> I'm not totally computer-illiterate - I have reasonable maths skills 
> as an ex-economist, and have built several websites unaided in 
> straight HTML without using an editing package or code editor. I have 
> written simple programs. But I do have a life outside this world, and 
> would like to see software documentation conform to the same standards 
> of clarity we expect from (say) people who write company annual 
> reports to shareholders - which is about the same level of inherent 
> complexity that needs to be cleaned up.
You're an economist telling us that annual reports are easy and clear to 
read. Well, me, as a non-economist, tend to disagree. I usually have no 
idea what all these economic terms are, and just reading an annual 
report does not give me a clear picture of the real position of a 
company at all. I just lack the knowledge to appreciate all the figures 
and understand them in their relations.

It is much the same with programming: you need some background knowledge 
to understand a domain document like the Qt documentation. In Qt's case, 
the background knowledge includes the basics of object oriented 
programming. Documents like these become unreadable for the average and 
the advanced user, if they time and time again explain every detail for 
the beginner. As others already said: there are separate books and 
tutorials for those groups, so they can gain the needed domain knowledge 
to be able to read the documentation.

André