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When you were a child you started out learning simple one syllable words, and speaking one word sentences. When you were toddler you started stringing those wo
by NathanKP 11y ago
When you were a child you started out learning simple one syllable words, and speaking one word sentences.
When you were toddler you started stringing those words together, and learning how to form extremely basic sentences.
And eventually you learned to form complex sentences with complex ideas.
The same thing applies to learning computing terms. AWS is now 9 years old, and has 9 years of development and features to catch up on if you are just starting. Yes, it will take some effort to learn everything, and if you don't see the benefit in doing so then you don't have to.
But if you want to be an "adult" engineer rather than a "toddler" engineer it is necessary to be willing to learn some things, even if it isn't easy.
- graycat 11y agoI strongly disagree: I'm under no obligation to have followed AWS for the past nine years. Instead, in each field, we should write in ways as self contained, and make the minimum assumptions, possible. In particular, in technical writing, we should not have undefined terms. The research libraries are awash with single texts that start with meager prerequisites and get to some quite advanced and challenging material. AWS can do so, also. I've been in computing for a long time, but there's no hope for me to know all the jargon of all parts of computing. Mostly jargon is not conceptually difficult, and the solution to the challenge of jargon is simple -- just define it. Parts of computing have long enjoyed having a closed priesthood that spoke in three letter acronym gibberish. IBM used to do this with PCP, MFT, MVT, MVS, JCL, DCB, IMS, DB2, CMS, SQL, and many more. And there were some four letter acronyms -- CICS, DASD, REXX. The concepts were mostly simple; the gibberish was a secret language. Once I gave a grad seminar on computing and had a lot of guests from industry. IBM talked in their gibberish, but none of the other vendors did. The students caught on: IBM wanted to intimidate people and otherwise invite people into their priesthood where they, too, would understand the gibberish. IBM was the least popular of the vendors.
- NathanKP 11y agoAWS has documentation at varying levels. If you are looking for documentation that starts at the absolute basics, without acronyms then you are probably wanting the "Getting Started" section of their documentation site: http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ The linked article is basically a changelog for devs who have already been using the ecosystem for years, so no its not newbie friendly.
- graycat 11y agoThanks. They would have been doing better for their business if they had made that point clear. Again, my gripe is, better writing is needed. Why? The writing now too often results in absurdly high costs for absurdly poor reasons. The costs to me have me torqued. We're just talking about bad writing.