Re: Mythical Frame learning curve

Subject: Re: Mythical Frame learning curve
From: Mitch Berg <mberg -at- IS -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 15:38:49 -0600

Don Smith wrote:

> I beg to differ. I use 4 or 5 programs, the main program here being
> Ventura Publisher 4.2. (Word 7, W.P.7, etc.) In working with the
> Frame's "Getting started" document and doing some reading in the
> manual, I did *not* find it intuitive, easy, nor did I easily "catch
> on". I found the very fact that I *did* know another program made it
> *more* difficult, because I kept trying to figure out how Frame did
> the same things that Ventura does. This method does *not* work out
> very well, at least not for me.

Oddly, when I started in TechComm, I went from a Ventura class at a
local tech school, directly to a gig using Frame in a NeXT shop. Bear
in mind, I'd never used a GUI before this - only UNIX and DOS.

Got going with nary a skip.

Takes all kinds, I guess.

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