I'm not sure this is the right place to post such a comment, but I will be discussing tutorials so I figure this is the right place.

Recently I've seen in a number of tutorial threads people commenting on searching before writing a tutorial to see if the subject has already been covered. Although most of these posts are not meant negativily, some are.

Learning for one person is not the same as learning for another. Some people learn by doing, while others can learn theory and concepts strictly from text. For this reason I do not think that the AntiOnline community should discourage people from writing tutorials on subjects that have already been covered. Some people need to absorb information from mulitple sources in order to gain understaning of a subject.

Think about when you were in school. Most of us could not learn a subject strictly from a teacher's lectures. We had to listen to the lecture, read the text book, do the homework, and then suplement the information with special projects such as research papers.

Currently on my book shelf I have three begenners books on C++. While no one book is clearly better than another, they all tell the same thing but in diffrent matters. Why one book may explain variables more clearly, anohter may handle the subject of classes better.

I believe having many user written tutorials on a similar subject is a benefit to the entire AntiOnline community. While the tutorials may cover similar subjects, they may say it diffrently (not necessarly better, just diffrent). This redudency ensures that all members of AntiOnline can find a tutorial that makes sense to them.

So in short I encourage tutorials on subjects that have already been covered, I might just walk away with something that I missed in another tutorial.

Just my thoughts.

DeafLamb

EDIT: If this post isn't in the right area, would a moderator please move it. Sorry.