Show HN: A New Concept for Programming Tutorials

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3 points·matthiaswh··4 comments

I like the concept and implementation of the proposed improvements, but I think it starts off a bit too slow - lots of repetition in 2 through 6. The reader doesn't know what's coming, so you're asking a lot for them to sit through those "boring" bits.

Also, information on how to deploy this concept on other sites might also be useful, especially given the venue. Maybe even use the project itself as the tutorial?

You're absolutely right! As someone who does marketing for a living I'm completely unsatisfied with the "pitch." But I had to get over the mental block of publishing this and go live with something that isn't yet perfect.

Appreciate the feedback. My next step is to publish a couple small tutorials so there are more live examples of the concept.

The concept is great. Is there a GitHub repo?

There is not a repo yet. The demo is running a lightweight vue.js app for the front end. In the MVP spirit, I simply hard coded the tutorial steps and code revisions in the JavaScript. Reading and processing repository diffs has held me back from creating this for such a long time, but I wanted to throw something out there and this was the easiest route to publishing a concept demo.

I'd be happy to publish the front end on GitHub, but without the ability to read from a repository it isn't functional for anything beyond a demo.

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