[Development] "Getting started" tutorials (Was: Examples and Demos in qtdoc)

[Samuel Gaist]

> On 16 Jun 2017, at 16:17, Sze Howe Koh <szehowe.koh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 15 June 2017 at 01:29, Tuukka Turunen <tuukka.turunen at qt.io> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yes, we would like to overall improve the examples. This is related to having a new repo for examples, but not fully the same thing. Main goal in example improvement being to make them more useful in what they are: examples of how to use Qt. Currently there are some examples that implement their own rudimentary controls instead of using Qt Quick Controls 2. We also have some examples that do not properly leverage our tooling. Some examples might not show the very best way to do things, as the new APIs allow even better way than at the time of creating the example.
> >
> > What comes to WOW, we do need to have great looking demos and at least some examples should look good as well. However, that WOW should not be the ultimate goal. The purpose of examples is to help users make better use of Qt and sometimes making things too shiny can be counterproductive. Another thing is that this WOW is a quite subjective matter and different trends come and go. It is fine to make an example look great, but that should not be the sole purpose.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Tuukka
> 
> Understood.
> 
> On the topic of showing users "how to use Qt" and "leverage our tooling", I feel that our "getting started" tutorials/examples need some love too.
> 
> IMHO, the "Getting Started" tutorial from Qt 4.3 (https://doc.qt.io/archives/4.3/tutorial-t1.html) is more accessible to beginners than http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/gettingstartedqt.html mainly because the Qt 4.3 tute presents material in digestible chunks. Readers are introduced to the bare bones, and get to compile and interact with their code very early on. Then, the tute gradually introduces more and more concepts across a number of chapters; each chapter builds upon the previous. The reader gets to build and try out the new concepts in each chapter, before moving on to the next.
> 
> In contrast, the Qt 5 tutorial takes the reader through a multitude of concepts (Qt Designer, the UIC file format, the *.pro file, subclassing widgets, the Q_OBJECT macro, properties, signals and slots, layouts, and many different classes) before the reader is taught how to compile and run their first app. If the reader made a mistake somewhere along the way, it's hard to find out where. There is far too much material packed into a single "getting started" article.
> 
> I'm thinking of spending some time to update the Qt 4.3 tutorial (chapters 1 - 7) for Qt 5, presented in a few different ways to show how to do the same thing using different Qt technologies:
> 
> 1. C++ only
> 2. C++ with Qt Designer
> 3. QML only
> 4. QML with Qt Quick Designer
> 
> Is this something you'd want in the official documentation?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Sze-Howe
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+100

We seem to, lately, have a lot of beginners on the forum that would benefit from such a nice set of tutorials.

Cheers,
Samuel

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