"David Nash" <dbn### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message 
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> Ross wrote:
>> "Augur" <notgivingitoutyet> wrote in message
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>>>Any help you can offer is much appreciated!!
>
>> http://www.wikipov.org/ is a collection of stuff from mostly people that
>> hang around here i think. But I'd first recommend the tutorials in the
>> documentation.
>
> I want to second this.  I picked up POV-Ray several years ago and just 
> jumped in.  I looked around the net for tutorials and just didn't get very 
> far.
>
> This year I actually worked through the documentation page by page, 
> rendering the examples and making changes to see what it did.  It is much 
> easier for me to complete a good image now.

Yeah, I've been going through that documentation in my free time at work (3 
yrs of Computer Engineering so far, and all I'm given by my co-op employer 
is 3-4 hours of AutoCAD work each day, if that).  Seriously, if anyone is 
looking for a good Computer Engineer in a year or so, I'm actually looking 
for a job where I do meaningful work all 8 hours of the day!

Anyways, enough with the not-quite-shameless plug for a job...

I'm up to the beginning of the Advanced tutorial, and I'm definitely happy 
with the level of detail/experience the tutorials offer (if you type it all 
in yourself rather than copying and pasting all the code).

Thanks for the advice--if you come across any more good beginner 
tutorials/docs, please post them!!

--Augur

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"Augur" <notgivingitoutyet> wrote in message
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>
> "David Nash" <dbn### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
> news:42d53241$1@news.povray.org...
> > Ross wrote:
> >> "Augur" <notgivingitoutyet> wrote in message
> >> news:42ce0c53@news.povray.org...
> >>>Any help you can offer is much appreciated!!
> >
> >> http://www.wikipov.org/ is a collection of stuff from mostly people
that
> >> hang around here i think. But I'd first recommend the tutorials in the
> >> documentation.
> >
> > I want to second this.  I picked up POV-Ray several years ago and just
> > jumped in.  I looked around the net for tutorials and just didn't get
very
> > far.
> >
> > This year I actually worked through the documentation page by page,
> > rendering the examples and making changes to see what it did.  It is
much
> > easier for me to complete a good image now.
>
> Yeah, I've been going through that documentation in my free time at work
(3
> yrs of Computer Engineering so far, and all I'm given by my co-op employer
> is 3-4 hours of AutoCAD work each day, if that).  Seriously, if anyone is
> looking for a good Computer Engineer in a year or so, I'm actually looking
> for a job where I do meaningful work all 8 hours of the day!
>

Ha! Good luck with that :) Seriously. That would be great to find a job that
has 8 full hours of meaningfull work. My day is considerably less full of
meaningfull work, my bosses even less than me. He's a developer that got
sucked up into management, and now has no time to do anything during the
day. The day might as well be one solid meeting.

Start a company. http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html

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