[Gambas-user] Restructuring the official Gambas examples

[Tobias Boege]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2013, Beno?t Minisini wrote:
> Bbe more concrete of what "levels" you want, and then we can use real 
> names instead of numbers.
> 

I'd go with the majority's observation: two levels, namely Beginner and
Advanced.

> The current example grouping is arbitrary. You may have a different 
> grouping for basic/beginner examples than for advanced examples or 
> whatever else.
> 
> Just make a list of examples, and then we can decide how to group them.
> 

Of course the above binary distinction will be different. To be honest, I
didn't yet look at specific examples to group them newly because my cardinal
problem is to offer both: the arbitrary, topic-based grouping, because we're
all used to it and it's just sane, *together* with the niveau-based one
which should help newcomers to pick the right source to learn from.

Actually, the topic grouping will *further* help newbies to navigate through
the examples according to their interest. Who would pick a Beginner example
from "Multimedia" without knowing about "Basic"?

The best thing I could think of - in order to combine both views of the
example tree - is to leave the group display as is and sort all the projects
according to their niveau level, i.e. Beginner or Advanced (maybe with a
visual separator between the groups, if that's possible?), and print that
level somewhere around the example's description.

I'm still looking for people's opinions (or Bruce's criticism) to get a
representative consensus - maybe it's a flaw in our modern upbringing :-) -
because examples are things that all have to be content with and that I
don't want to change on the fly. (Sorry if this practice annoys anyone.)

Regards,
Tobi