Re: [xsl] <quote>XSL is NOT easy</quote>

[Kamal Bhatt <kbhatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

M. David Peterson wrote:
> Can't help but agree 100%.  In addition, via Jeni Tennison @ 
> http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/30
>
> <quote>
> With that in mind, look at how Ruby on Rails is marketed. A big play 
> is made of how easy it is. But if a language or framework is easy then 
> people with low self-efficacy canbt win: if they manage to do 
> something with it then they havenbt really achieved very much because 
> anyone can do it; if they donbt manage to do something with it then 
> theybre complete idiots. Ibm not saying that we should advertise 
> languages or frameworks as being hard, because obviously that can put 
> people off as well, but a recognition of the barriers that people 
> might face may, in a strange way, make them more approachable.
>
> This is also an issue for trainers: we need to be able to boost the 
> self-efficacy of the people we train (particularly women) by setting 
> them challenging (but achievable) tasks and not giving them too much 
> help to achieve them.
> </quuote>
Why particularly women? Not that anyone outside of Jeni Tennison could 
answer that.

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Kamal Bhatt