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1. You're trying too hard with the joking tone - it gets in the way. Jokes are funny in tutorials when they contrast with something, but if the whole thing is a
by DenisM 16y ago
1. You're trying too hard with the joking tone - it gets in the way. Jokes are funny in tutorials when they contrast with something, but if the whole thing is a long-running joke there is nothing to contrast against.
2. Inverted contrast of instruction text makes it hard to move the eyes from tutorial to command window and back.
3. There isn't actually enough explanation for what's going on. For example here "let villain = (28,"chirs") in fst villain" it's never explained what the actual syntax is. Which is where I stopped reading.
4. You have a hint that tells you how to get to current page. But I am already on the current page! What I need instead is a shortcut to get to previous page.
- chrisdone 16y ago1. Admittedly I am just trying to be friendly and the later lessons don't really have any joking tone. If others think this detracts from the experience I'll take the jokes out. 2. I haven't heard that complaint yet! I can try lightening it up in the stylesheet. 3. I hope that's not throughout the tutorial. That one has been flagged up (my non-programmer friend had no idea what it meant, but even he persevered! Shame on you! >_-), and I knew it when I wrote it; the basic issue is there is no support for saving variables in the session state for later re-call, so you have to write out your "let x = .. in .." expression every time. As mentioned in other posts, hopefully with the introduction of loading code, this problem will be solved and I can rewrite that part of the tutorial. 4. I added that hint by request, people want to know how to get back to where they were. I can add a 'back' command and mention it within that sentence, perhaps? Thanks for your feedback, nicely laid out and constructive!
- chrisdone 16y agoHey, I removed the jokes, a full explanation of let with examples and fst, etc. and a shortcut to go back. Can't change the colour yet on this machine as it's done with sprites and I need the right editor. Let me know if you try it further!
- DenisM 16y agoSorry, I moved on to other things now. I'm very impressed with your follow-trough however, and I think you will do quite well for that. It's similar to how a cruise missile can adjust the trajectory, and thus is infinitely more precise than a ballistic projectile. Good luck.