Google has developed two technical writing classes for developers, which it has delivered to thousands of its own staff. In late February 2020 it made these accessible to people outside of Google. But are they any good? In this episode of the Cherryleaf Podcast, we describe and review these courses.
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Learn to write clearly by taking the same technical writing courses that Google engineers take
Google has developed two technical writing classes that it has delivered to thousands of its own staff. Cherryleaf can teach your developers using Google’s own courseware, together with the option of additional training materials that we have developed independently. There are two courses: Technical Writing for Developers Part One This covers the critical basics of… Read more »
New training course – Writing skills for developers
Today, we’ve released our latest training course – Writing skills for developers. The course teaches developers the key skills of technical writing for software user documentation. Although it would be better for a professional technical communicator to write the end user documentation, for some organisations, this isn’t always possible. It is for developers who: Need a solid… Read more »
What is the minimal amount of user documentation you should write?
In researching what developers wanted to learn about writing documentation for users, the most common issue related to how much, or how little, they should write. One developer said: “I would want to know what is the minimum I should write. If you can persuade me what is the necessity of each thing I’m capturing, and… Read more »
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