RE: [avr-chat] AVR Documentation

[Eric Weddington]

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>  On Behalf Of Joerg Wunsch
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:40 PM
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> Subject: Re: [avr-chat] AVR Documentation
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> Eric Weddington <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > What I don't want to see is the community going that way again, with
> > fragmented documentation spread all over individual sites.
> 
> Still, the Wiki could (and probably will some day) be a very nice
> companion to the official documentation.  I can only repeat it, for
> those who can read German, I think it might eventually evolve the same
> way as the Wiki on http://www.mikrocontroller.net/ .  This is somewhat
> like *the* German web forum for microcontrollers (not only AVR), and
> there used to be an AVR Tutorial initially written by the operator of
> that site, which then became the initial input of the Wiki-based AVR
> tutorial it is now.
> 
> I see similar prospects for the avrfreaks.net Wiki (and I'm glad the
> rumours about their Wiki finally materialized): while it must not try
> to replace official project documentation, it can go beyond that
> documentation in providing something like an "Idiot's guide to your
> first AVR project".  The avr-libc doc examples aim to get first-time
> AVR users started with the AVR, but they concentrate on the technical
> details, so their prerequisite level is not zero, i.e. you should
> already basically know a bit about controllers, about how to solder
> the stuff together etc.  The Wiki can then accompany that by
> explaining all these basics as well (and this is usually best written
> by someone who has just been passing that part of their lurning
> curve).  As for official documentation, it should be fairly easy in
> the Wiki to simply link to it.

Thanks for clarifying my thoughts! I agree with you completely on all this!

:-)

Eric