Here's looking at you, kid

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 17:57:06 UTC, Chris wrote:

>>
>> It seems clear that there are a variety of different types of 
>> people who would want to learn the language. Maybe split up 
>> the Getting Started page to a few sections, like "new 
>> programmers", "intermediate programmers", "expert programmers".
>
> IMO, it's not a good idea to classify people like that, because 
> even a beginner might need advanced stuff and they might ignore 
> the "advanced" section. Also, people might rate themselves as 
> "intermediate" while they actually do pretty advanced stuff. 
> Let's order by topic. It should come up when someone types 
> "dlang set up socket", and so on.

One important thing is to direct people to the right library 
modules. This is something that really confuses people. 
std.algorithm covers a lot of stuff that people would expect 
elsewhere. I think std.string already tells people to go to 
std.algorithm, but an overview would be nice.

Strings

std.string, std.algorithm (std.ascii etc) with a short 
explanation.

Arrays

etc.

Basically a "Get sh*t done" page.