Let's make the DLang Tour an awesome landing page for D newbies

[André via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 24 June 2016 at 03:14:31 UTC, Carl Vogel wrote:
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>
> One thing that might encourage having people move further along 
> is to set up the interactive code sections as "quizzes."  I.e. 
> have the visitor fill in code to give a certain output or pass 
> a unittest instead of just having a pre-written example. This 
> makes the tutorial more interactive and fun.
>
> If this is geared towards real newcomers (not just c/c++ 
> converts who are looking for quick reference), then I agree 
> with Ali that less text per section (even if you need lots more 
> bite-sized sections) would be best. If you look at the 
> interactive tutorial on e.g. haskell.org, it moves in VERY 
> small bits -- typing in math, sorting a list, etc. If even 
> Haskell is going to break things down so simply, surely we can 
> too. :)

Thanks guys for the feedback! Especially the navigation part is 
already listed as an issue because it has been one of the 
recurring problems users reported.

Regards,
André