Spell checking errors can be hilarious

[Andrew Edwards]

On Monday, 12 October 2020 at 17:04:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>
> The unfortunate thing in the video was 'to' is not searchable 
> on the internet and it took them a long time to figure out how 
> to use a to!string expression. :/
>
> Ali

I'm far from being the sharpest tool in the shed but a little 
common sense could have helped them quite a bit. Like knowing I'm 
searching for a particular construct in the D Language, I'd 
prefix my searches with dlang. In this particular case "dlang 
to!string" pulled up the solution as the first hit of the 
returned results.

But to be honest, given a website with a search bar, I would 
never return to Google to search for anything I'd expect to find 
on that site. Or if I did, at the very least, I'd prefix my 
searches with site:dlang.org.

Which reminds me, we need to include a search bar on 
tutor.dlang.org. It should point to the library by default and 
have the option to change to other sections of the site similar 
to the search feature on other pages on the site.

Also, there are code samples throughout the site that provide a 
run button but does not import the appropriate modules to ensure 
successful compilation. I think that hurts more than watching 
those two guys pretending to be newbies to programming.

Listening to the conversation those two were having, it is clear 
that they've been programming for a while. Maybe not in D, but 
they are actual programmers. This presentation caused some 
frustration since they were trying to act like they knew 
absolutely nothing about programming and did things I don't think 
even the most novice of programmers would do.