[Tutor] Re: Q & A

[Danny Yoo]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Chelan Farsight wrote:

> Okay this is a real question I have and I am not trying to defend the
> actions of Mr. Chui.  I simply wanted to make sure that I have joined
> the right list.  Are we allowed to ask total n00b questions on this
> list?

Hi Chelan,


Yikes!  Newcomer questions are perfectly fine.

I'm sorry for the exasperated tone I used in my last message, and will try
to explain myself.

Let me clarify: if it's obvious that the questioner doesn't even care
about the question they are asking --- if someone is just trying to get us
to do homework so they can copy and paste it into some word processor ---
then I get annoyed.  (But I should have posted my rant off-list, so that
it didn't disrupt anyone else.)

If it looks like the questioner cares about the answer, and is doing other
things to learn more about the subject, then that's ok.


> If not what level of understanding is presumed before someone should
> post a question?

Any level of understanding is actually fine.  Personally, it's the human
intent of the questions that matters to me.  Neither of Chui's questions
had anything to do with Python.  If there's any real requirement about
questions, it's that it should at least have something to do with learning
how to program in Python.


> I just want to make sure that total newbies are welcome here.  If not
> then a reccomendation for another list would be greatly appreciated.

This list is for beginners and newcomers to Python and programming.  If
you have any questions, please feel free to ask them.  And, again, I
apologize about the earlier rant; I get emotional very easily.  *grin*