Do other Python GUI toolkits require this?

Antoon Pardon apardon at forel.vub.ac.be
Fri Apr 20 10:49:57 EDT 2007


On 2007-04-20, Max Erickson <maxerickson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If we are being pedantic about describing a curve that shows the 
> progress of a person in learning a topic, there is no arguing with 
> you, a steep curve describes fast uptake and is a good thing.
>
> If we are being pedantic about what a learning curve describes, it 
> seems possible that it describes the rate of knowledge uptake 
> required to master a given topic, and that such a learning curve 
> could exclude people that were unable to take in knowledge at that 
> rate(for whatever reason) from mastering that topic, making it 
> reasonable to describe such a topic as both 'hard' and 'having a 
> steep learning curve'.

I must confess I don't follow you here. A rate is a single number.
Now some second variable can be a function of this rate or vice
versa but I can't make out what this second variable is supposed
to be from your explanation.

-- 
Antoon Pardon



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