Teaching is showing and yes spoon feed, until the OP get's the teeth to eat. Afterward they might just eat the spoon.
Yes, why is it so hard to teach somebody? Why be here if you are not here to learn and/or teach? I see no reason unless (as I suspect) some enjoy the frustration of others b/c perhaps they have been frustrated in their life. It is better to lift your fellow man than to watch him drown.
I am very visual, if I see an image and am told WHY each component is there and WHAT it does I can learn fast. But vague posts that says to run a diode in one part in conjunction with resistor 3 to make 0.7V at pin X and then later in the same post to run no diode and resistor 4 instead to make 5v really throws somebody like me off.... I have a pro telling me in the same post to do two COMPLETELY different things .. ranging from 0.7v to 5.0v ....
as of yet nobody has taken the time to really help me IMO, when I say that I mean a schematic with an explanation of why different components were chosen to end up with result X is worth more than a thousand words, it would be like an entire chapter.
I must say that while i didn't get my answer in the form I could really grasp what was going on Mbarazeen, Roff and 3v0 have been really helpful and polite. Audio-guru was somewhat helpful yet had a rude tone IMO.....
I do not understand the secrecy. and the comments about teaching a man to fish... very true. But help him learn to fish, do not berate him while he asks how to tie a knot in the line to fasten the hook properly then laugh when a fish gets away with the hook...... a simple diagram showing the proper way to tie the know and explaining why it is tied this way works wonders....
Online I have meet some of the nicest people ever, when I knew nothing of web design I asked about php and some of the nicest people ever taught me, did so without hesitation and question. They were gracious enough to provide sample code when I knew
nothing and explained what that code did. With their help I was able to write my first script and I learned how to write other scripts I needed and insert and call information from a database.
Most of all i remember my teacher.. or helper. Nogdog, sure there were others but it was that he taught me something new, didn't belittle me for knowing nothing at all and was very gracious and helpful.
I think several here could learn a lot from him about teaching and respect.