[info] [croquet-dev] Third and final installment of the Quick and Dirty Guide to Creating a Croquet World now available

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Matthew Schmidt <matthew.schmidt at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:26:23 -0500
To: croquet-dev at duke.edu
Subject: [croquet-dev] Third and final installment of the Quick and Dirty Guide to Creating a Croquet World now available
Reply-To: croquet-dev at duke.edu, Matthew Schmidt <matthew.schmidt at gmail.com>


   Folks,
   I've completed the third and final installment of the Quick and  Dirty
   Guide to Creating a Croquet World.
   [1]http://xaverse.blogspot.com/2007/10/quick-and-dirty-guide-part-iii-
   adding.html 
   I would really appreciate any and all feedback from the community
   about whether these guides are helpful and how they can be improved.
   My next endeavor will be outlining how to create a customized world. I
   will definitely need your help for this, as I am by no means a Croquet
   guru.
   My belief is that these guides are long overdue, and in the sense of
   Free and Open Source Software, I would like to offer them to the
   community under the GNU Free Documentation License. I decided not to
   go with the Creative Commons license, as there is some confusion
   regarding this license. Many are not aware that it has a number of
   variations, so when they see something with a Creative Commons
   license, they equate it with, "I can do whatever I want with it for
   free." I want to have any changes submitted back to me so that I can
   improve the documentation. Hence the choice to go with GFDL.
   In a more general sense, I believe this contribution is in line with
   the documentation section of the Croquet project roadmap, specifically
   the "Cookbook" section (see below). David, if you're tuned in, please
   feel free to use these tutorials to this end.

  CroquetDocumentation

   Description The documentation for Croquet needs to include a number of
   documents.
    1. User's Guide this document introduces new users to Croquet, how to
       set it up, how to connect to other users, and how to extend the
       system via a scripting engine.
    2. Programmer's Guide Describes how to develop Croquet applications,
       and gives an overview of the philosophy and architecture.
    3. Programmer's Reference The components of the architecture are
       described in detail, such that the programmer can easily reference
       functional capabilities by name or by description.
    4. Cookbook Describes how to construct numerous example applications.

   Status Preliminary documents have been developed, though these will
   have to be mostly rewritten.

   Priority Critical
   -Matt

References

   1. http://xaverse.blogspot.com/2007/10/quick-and-dirty-guide-part-iii-adding.html

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