On Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 07:48:28 UTC, eles wrote:
That's because many git tutorial start with praising its distributed repository model and bragging about why that feature is cool (which is very true, but it is confusing for beginners). Ignore that part for the time being, it will click in later.
Yeah, when it starts getting into non-changing data the SHA1 and 160bit hashing makes perfect sense, even for identifying renamed/moved files based on how much matching code they have.
I understand every line you entered because i just ended up watching 2-3 hours of Github help videos regarding the various features, otherwise i'd be completely lost, even with a book to guide me. But perhaps what we lack is sorta this nice introduction into D using GitHub. My first experience is still very jarring.
I'd like to see offered a standard environment i can download and run as a LiceCD on a VM that contains all the tools and everything ready-to-use. Recommended or ready-to-use doesn't mean it's the only way to use it :P
Course i'd also like to see some videos. Andrei and Walter talking about phobos and the approaches to design and why they took various directions. Talking about how to use phobos, and the various tools or development steps to contribute. Sure you can read from the documentation but sometimes a good explanation of why things are named or how they are named and their use would make it a lot easier as a type of tutorial of the library and language.
I believe Channel-9's videos on the C++ STL taught me more of how to use it than i could get from a book due to the huge jarring and confusing differences between C and C++'s approach to it. I'd hope Facebook or Google could provide a public green-room where some of these informational videos could be captured.
Of course i'd also like to see Richard Stallman give his blessing and provide some of his skills and support as well. But most of this is wishful thinking...
