Re: Learning curve - was: Re: Tutorials on Windows GUI programming with Python, please?

marcus_at_deepfort.com
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 16:49:15 +0000
To: python-list@python.org

Gerhard Haering wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 08:47:08AM -0600, Larry Bates wrote:
>
>
>>[...] the learning curve > is pretty steep.
>>
>>
>
>Anybody care to explain the term "learning curve" to me?
>
>I'd assume that you have time on the x-axis, and knowledge on the
>y-axis. So a steep curve would mean that you know much in short time.
>
>But that doesn't seem to be how the terms steep/flat learning curve is
>used :-S
>
>-- Gerhard
>
>
Time/energy is on the y, and progress/knowledge on the x - it's
literally like a slope a wheeled vehicle would travel up :-)

          |_____x
          |_____x
   Time |_____x
  Elapsed |____x_
          |_x x__
          |______

        Progress Made

After years of searching for a way to travel the other way, to
free-wheel *down* the curve, several programming/scripting languages
have been developed that enable students to gain time and lose progress.

I believe there's no need to name any :shifty:

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