Re: Got a question regarding newbies

From: M. Armaghan Saqib <armaghan_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 03:46:59 GMT
Message-ID: <882l3j$c19$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

Most of the questions asked here require immediate or urgent answers (I am talking from poster's perspective). And when you are in urgency, your thinking or organizing skills are not at all at peak.

Our educational system does not teach us problem solving thinking, they just feed us with information, facts and figures.

Dr. Edward Debono (www.edwdebono.com) has done an excellent work in the problem solving areas. His very simple thinking techniques like APC (Alternatives, Possibilities, Choices), CAF (Consider All Factors), PMI (Plus, Minus, Interesting) etc produce a dramatic result on a learner.

Download page on my web site clearly (and in bold) indicates how to get unlocking password, yet I daily receive three to four emails which ask for unlocking password for the download. (I just send them password directly).

But I do not wonder. I know this happens and will continue to happen unless we teach some simple thinking skills in our institutions. From my experience of teaching these thinking skills I know these skills bring drastic improvement.

regards,
M. Armaghan Saqib
(If any body wants to know more about these thinking skills, email me directly)

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Isaac Blank <izblank_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:38a439ae.78513145_at_news.nanospace.com...
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 12:39:10 GMT, alex_at_alenda.NOSPAM!.freeserve.co.uk
> (Alex Hudghton) wrote:
>
>
> >
> >As to Kenneth's comment about reading the previous replies - I am not
> >aware of an FAQ ever being posted in this newsgroup. In
comp.unix.aix,
> >to which I also subscribe, the FAQ is posted every 2 months and is 6
> >messages long.
> >
> I used to participate in mssql newsgroups, and pretty often an answer
> to a newbie question would just be a FAQ's web address or a reference
> to their online documentation (Books OnLine, or BOL). Something like
> "do a serach in BOL with a keyword blah-blah or go to
> www.someplace.com/FAQ". But someone has to create and maintain this
> FAQ and it can be a demanding task.
>
> Isaac,
> former MSSQL DBA, now an Oracle newbie

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Before you buy. Received on Fri Feb 11 2000 - 21:46:59 CST