Re: [Boost-docs] Teaching Quickbook

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Teaching Quickbook
From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-01 22:55:12

Matias Capeletto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I gave a two hours course today to 20 developers from my University
> about Quickbook.
> They really like it! :)

Awesome!

> I used FireFox, the Boost.DocTest, the Quickbook source css, and the
> page source view. Great teaching tools.
> 
> When I show them templates... they _really_ start loving Quickbook.
> Using templates to refactor docs as if they were code you achieve docs
> layout reuse. It is a pretty good idea.

Yeah, that's one worthy goal of templates. I'm hoping it matures
enough to fulfill that goal. For that, I'll need use-cases.
Please send in your ideas. Take Andrew Sutton's STL pages,
for example. I imagine lots of boilerplate. Can these be
templated? I have a feeling yes, but I am not sure yet how
to best accomplish it.

> I will continue doing this courses in others Universities in my
> country in the future. I really think we should get serious about
> making it an independent project. I will love to participate in the
> building process of the Quickbook community.

Great! Let's work on it then.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
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