[Perl-org-patches] learn.perl.org front page

[Shlomi Fish]

On Thursday 29 Oct 2009 05:15:07 Chris Nehren wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:01:46 -0700 , Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> > # from Eric Wilhelm
> >
> > # on Tuesday 27 October 2009 14:00:
> > >>Could use a bit of clarification--do you mean to move /tutorials/ to
> > >>/tutorial-links/ and bring Eric's content in wholesale under
> > >>/tutorials/ ?
> > >
> > >I would like to have /tutorials/index.html be a fairly coherent
> > >sequence.  Of course, the 6 tutorials I'm writing don't fill the
> > >spectrum, so I think there's room to work off-site links into the
> > >sequence (or adding on-site content.)  There is also room to break-out
> > >topic sections (e.g. XML, catalyst, wx/gtk/tk/qt, modperl, Inline, XS)
> > >as a section at the bottom of the index.
> >
> > I'm also pondering how/whether to list the tutorials on the front page.
> > This page needs a little more content, but not too much content.
> >
> >   http://learnperl.scratchcomputing.com/
> >
> > One thought is to have a short paragraph about how the tutorials are
> > organized and reduce the links to categories (e.g. beginner,
> > intermediate, web, gui, and other specifics.)  Possibly having one
> > tutorial link under each category.  As I picture it, the categories
> > would land at anchors in /tutorials/index.html.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> I think that it would be easier to proceed with what we have *now* and
> put up an improved section of the site for learning Perl. Then, as your
> work completes, we can integrate it as appropriate. I suppose what I'm
> really saying is: finish your work, and in the meantime we'll publish
> pointers to what we already have.
> 

I agree with Chris. +1. I'd like to see a list to existing, recommended, 
tutorials on learn.perl.org because it:

1. Would be better than nothing.

2. Should be done for completeness sake. Not every tutorial will be suiable 
for all newcomers, and we need to give them some choice. See for example:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Programmers

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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