[Munawwar]

You all may have noticed this.There are 215 C++ tutorials and list looks something like :
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Writing an Interpreter - Part II
Make BlackJack in objective C, plus a review of the language
Writing an Interpreter - Part IIIA
Hash Table and It's Usage
...
...goes on

I feel that if the tutorials were arranged according to topics (folders) it would be really easy to find our topic of interest. I say, something like "Basics","Data structures","Algorithms","Windows","Linux","Graphics","Other stuff"..I dont know...maybe I am not good at sorting the topics. But yes, presenting such huge data in a structured way is more pleasing to the eyes - Its just a personal opinion. What do, the people of DIC, think?

[NickDMax]

As the number of tutorials has grown this issue as indeed been brought up by the team. Although I am not 100% sure what was decided I think the consensus was that we will be looking at some way of sorting the tutorials after the upgrade settles down.

I will move this topic over to the site feedback section and see what comes of the discussion. This is definitely not the firs time this topic has come up. We feel your pain!

[KYA]

Yes please. Some sections are getting hard to search through.

[Bench]

I couldn't agree more, I think I brought this up about a year ago. It would certainly make alot more sense to have seperate sections for C, C++, 3rd party extensions, platform-specific stuff... (And by the way, has anyone noticed how many unsorted snippets there are..?)

Looking briefly at the tutorials section, a few possible categories seem to jump out

- Standard C (C89/C90/C99)
- Standard C++ incl. TR1 and C++0x
- STL Containers/Algorithms
- OO Design
- Visual C++/MFC/C++CLI
- Windows API/Windows programming
- *NIX programming
- 64-bit programming issues
- Cross-platform 3rd party libraries
- Miscellaneous/Uncategorised/General

The only problem is that it will take someone quite a while to sort through all 200+ tutorials and categorise each of them, but i'm sure it will help in the long run



As for organising the tutorials, would it be better to use something a bit less forum-like? My initial thought had been towards wiki-type software, where other contributors could improve the existing tutorials - Of course that comes with a whole world of its own problems, i'm not sure that its very practical for DIC without giving the mods a headache.

This post has been edited by Bench: 11 February 2010 - 03:15 AM

[EdwinNameless]

Bench, on 11 February 2010 - 08:58 AM, said:

As for organising the tutorials, would it be better to use something a bit less forum-like? My initial thought had been towards wiki-type software, where other contributors could improve the existing tutorials - Of course that comes with a whole world of its own problems, i'm not sure that its very practical for DIC without giving the mods a headache.

+1.

Some tutorials definitely could do with some improvements (note the euphemism here), and I think the Wiki approach would totally be suitable (isn't there an IPB integration with MediaWiki or something?). I'm thinking pages should only be editable for certain groups of users (like Contributors) to avoid abuse.

This post has been edited by EdwinNameless: 11 February 2010 - 05:17 AM