[Coco] First experiences with my DE1

[Mark McDougall]

On 17/02/2014 4:17 AM, Louis Ciotti wrote:

> My guess is the with only one person really developing the COCO3FPGA
> (Correct me if I am wrong on the only one person part) the documentation
> that has been developed is sufficient in his view.

The developer should never, ever write documentation for users, or other 
developers, and there's very good reason for it. It's not the fault of the 
developer, but of the process.

I'm actually working on a job at work that I haven't touched for 18 months. 
Granted it's an extremely complex and multi-faceted job, but prior to that I 
worked on it for almost 5 years more-or-less full-time! And I can tell you, 
the ramp-up this time 'round has been difficult and frustrating. Little 
things that I've done many hundreds of times during the course of 
development, have completely escaped my memory! Things that I would never 
have dreamt of documenting, just like I don't document how to make my 
morning coffee. It's a real eye-opener.

It's actually a really good idea that someone like Nick writes the "user 
manual", because he's coming into it cold with no prior knowledge.

Regards,

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