[pythian] Re: DESIGN - Experience
- From: "Andrey Plisko" <andrey.plisko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pythian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 16:50:17 +0300
Hi,
> > i disagree, i think that for every type of skill, reading a book
> > should only increase your your potential in that skill. this
> > just seems
> > more logical.
>
> I was going to argue with you, but I couldn't think of any examples where
> you could read something and instantly be as good at it as you would be
> after practicing it several times. Therefore, you must be right :)
I think the key is in the golden mean of 2 approaches.
Yes - maybe reading the book is not rising your skill directly (except the
"reading" skill ;-)),
but who ever tried to read a book without trying to do something from this
book?
There are allways some sort of examples in good book - so reader should try
them WHILE READING IT.
Such a book is much like a teacher. But maybe not so good as living one.
So I propose the following benefits of reading:
- gain some grow of potential
- skill is increased by some amout (maybe quite a bit)
> > - minimium skill limit for a book to be read.
> > - skill proportionality - they can read the book, but because they
> > dont understand it, they only gain a little but of knoledge from
> > it
>
> Sure, if the book is so far ahead of your current skill that you can't
> understand, you'll gain less, similarly, if the book is written at your
> current level, you'll gain little. This suggests there is a
> gaussian curve
> (bell shaped) centered around an "ideal" skill for learning from
> a book, and
> getting smaller if it's far far advanced, or not advanced enough for you.
>
> Sounds good.
Great idea. But this is really good candidate to hide from players.
At least the "gaussian curve" calculation part. ;-)
Andrey.
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