[fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2022, Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I had a new idea for an interface design to help people who either are not
> into programming yet or have only used a language other than Free Pascal.
> Please see this draft Introduction to Free Pascal web page I posted this
> morning.
>
> https://www.getlazarus.org/guides/intro/

If the target audience are people that are not yet into programming,
I think the code samples might be a little too difficult ?

>
> My idea is to implement a web page system where syntax highlight code is
> presented like in the Lazarus IDE, and special links are peppered through
> and explanation of how and why Pascal works by using some example programs.
> When the user highlights the special link, the relevant source code is
> highlighted in the syntax window. This then hopefully allows people to
> understand a bit more about pascal by pairing the explanations with lines
> of source code.
>
> Let me know if you think this approach has any merit or if you think my
> guide could be altered to be a bit more clean in places. As a reminder,
> this page is a wiki, so you cna submit edits to me by clicking the edit
> link at the top of the page. I am able to see and merge your edits.
>

You might want to use pas2js to make everything more dynamic.

The Pas2js compiler can be embedded in your page and you could let people compile &
run pascal code right in your page.

Similar pages for golang and so on have this ability.

Michael.