On Thursday, 21 March 2019 at 21:34:26 UTC, Michelle Long wrote:
I'd suggest adding pictures! It's very easy to take a screen
shot and not much harder to link them and they offer far more
interest.
You're the second person to suggest this, so I'll explain my
reasoning. I assure you, it's not because I'm lazy or don't know
where the Print Screen button is. :)
My original plan was to include screenshots. Then I thought back
over my own experiences with reading tutorial sites. I have a
tendency to look at the screenshot, skim the article,
copy-n-paste the code, and go off to do other things. I've also
noticed this in others. It's often quite obvious someone hasn't
read something carefully just by the questions they ask (present
company excluded).
And I think images deter people from paying close attention while
reading. I can't back this up with statistics or research other
than my own, but I have noticed a decline in reading
comprehension over the last 30 years as the Internet went from
text-only to images and ads filling our screens.
So the bottom line is, by leaving out images, I feel I'm doing my
bit for literacy. If there's nothing else besides text, it's all
the reader has to engage with and I'm hoping this will engender a
complete understanding of the subjects I cover... as much as is
possible.
It's also why I keep the frills down to an absolute minimum. I've
tossed thousands of words because they veered too far off topic
or were written just to get a laugh or whatever.
And there you have it, the philosophy behind gtkDcoding.
Thanks for reading, Michelle. And keep the comments coming,
please.
