Here's looking at you, kid

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 20 November 2015 at 18:11:41 UTC, Chris wrote:
> 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.

To be clear with this I don't mean what's in the library section 
now like

"std.string 	Algorithms that work specifically with strings."

but something more practical, strings: wanna find a string in a 
string? Do this ...