<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I've been programming a long time but when I first took up with Lazarus and FPC there were three issues:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> - out of date documentation. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> - for many topics (for example in the LCL) there is formal documentation but not tutorial material.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> - distros sometimes have quite old versions in their repos. For example my opensuse machine right now is offering Lazarus 2.2. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif">[ fpcupdeluxe was invisible at the time. And on a single monitor machine, trunk version 3.9.9 with its greatly improved docked interface is a blessing. ]<br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Addressing these issues is vital to attract new users.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif">I'm happy to help anyone writing updated tutorial material.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 11:52 AM ppadilcdx--- via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Apropos the new users discussion, i think the state of the docs is really important, new users can be discouraged by lack of documentation or up-to-date docs.<br>
I just recently retired so not a new young user, but relatily new to fpc. So, I’m willing to help update the docs, correct typos, etc, if someone points me in the right direction.<br>
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Regards<br>
Pete<br>
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