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@bw this is super neat and useful even to people who know how to “code” but haven’t done webhosting before. I will say though, as someone who interacts with new programmers at my university (undergrad) frequently, I might add that there are a few hidden assumptions in some of the first tutorials. It assumes the reader understands what file extensions are, or knows how how to navigate/understand folders. Should index.html be next to or outside the folder? You haven’t specified :c 5 comments
@bw Another thing: Illustrations, even tiny ones that can be understood at a glance, help a lot. Example: A simple “this is the file extension” arrow pointing to the file extension of a file name. @bw Sorry for the maybe unprompted criticism… know that I’m writing all this because I think you are on the right track and want this to succeed! I really wish I found this resource when I was 15 and learning to host my first shitty js calculator. Neocities and the other recommendations are 10 times better than what I stumbled into when I googled “free html host” and now I have a good article series to recommend to normal people :^) @bw I also read it again, and I think you did actually tackle some of my points somewhat in the article (e.g. you mention where a file extension is for a file), but I think really hammering stuff like this home for people who are “not in tech” is important if their accessibility specifically is what you’re aiming for.  @mikkelens I appreciate this feedback. Yeah I mentioned briefly in the introduction that knowledge of using a computer and ability to create files and folders were prerequisites of the book. That being said, I agree that some more discussion it would help. I'm not sure if I want to write something and host it myself, or maybe just point people to some kind of primer on creating files and folders. |
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@bw maybe “people” is intended to mean people who know file systems and such, but not all adults, even young and bright ones, necessarily know this. I also remember struggling to understand WHERE to do the listed instructions a lot when I was learning these basics, even in “beginner” tutorials.
Recent experience: New programmers can learn to write C code with GCC in an afternoon, but they still need help getting to the part where writing `gcc hello.c` does what they want.