Talk:Eclipse Educational Screencam Planning

Hi Wayne. I'm new to editing Wiki's, so please be sure to let me know if I'm not doing this the best way. From looking at the Wikipedia tutorial, it looks like the "talk" page is the best way to ask questions vs. actually making edits. At this point, I have more questions than edits. Here are some to get started.

1. My focus at this point is to come up with a general plan, simliar to what you have already put on the page, and then figure out which 1 or 2 videos are the most important to start with. Then, I can create the first video and we can use that as a pilot project. Is that similar to what you have in mind?

2. What's the most important priority that training videos could help with? (e.g., make it easier for newbies to get started?)

3. Which do you think is more important: to draw in new people who are new to Java and maybe OOP or to draw in experienced Java developers who are not using Eclipse? (I would guess that it's a harder sell for people who are already familiar with other IDE's, but that is just a guess.) Or are both equally important?

4. For Java / OOP novices, I think a series starting from scratch and building a simple app, including UI, would be good. The nice think about the video format is that you can show people things and explain them just enough to pique their interest without getting too bogged down. And obviously there are a lot of resources for learning Java.

5. For existing Java developers, we could perhaps start with a "sales demo" video. In other words, we could identify the killer features of Eclipse vs. the leading competitors and make sure to highlight those features ("have you ever had to change a method signature .... with Eclipse it's easy").

Let me know what you think. Thanks.