I found it helpful to go through the SW Tutorials at least three times, for several reasons:
- You are executing the tutorial in the first place to learn something new; I never get new concepts in one reading.
- The SW designers/authors/engineers/programmers have a particular Gallic way of thinking and of doing things. There's nothing wrong with that, but it may not parallel the way you think.
- I get the impression that SW is written in French (logical enough), and translated to English, usually a little better than machine translation does it, but not always a lot better.
- At the time I was using SW2010, the tutorials were more closely associated with SW2007 or SW2005. I.e., they didn't update the tutorials with every new issue of SW, and that caused a lot of confusion, because they seemed to regularly change the menu structure, the artwork, the specific terminology used, and the behavior of the software, i.e. everything _but_ the tutorials, regularly/continuously. I'm getting rusty, but I see no sign here that that tradition has changed.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA