[fpc-pascal] docs

[Christo Crause]

The official FPC documentation can be accessed from here:
https://www.freepascal.org/docs.html
These are obviously reference documentation, not getting started or how-to
tutorials.
The documentation is hosted here:
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/documentation
Issues reporting mistakes/omissions and merge requests with fixes can be
submitted here.

Lazarus documentation is hosted on SourceForge:
https://lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.io/docs/index.html

Tutorials for FPC and Lazarus can be added to the wiki (
https://wiki.freepascal.org/Main_Page).
Perhaps for FPC tutorials take a look at the content of Basic Pascal
Tutorial (https://wiki.freepascal.org/Basic_Pascal_Tutorial)
and add getting started topics there.

Lazarus tutorials are a bit more scattered, but check here to see what is
existing: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Category:Tutorials

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 9:05 AM Gordon Findlay via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> I've been programming a long time but when I first took up with Lazarus
> and FPC there were three issues:
>
>  - out of date documentation.
>  - for many topics (for example in the LCL) there is formal documentation
> but not tutorial material.
>  - distros sometimes have quite old versions in their repos. For example
> my opensuse machine right now is offering Lazarus 2.2.
>
> [ 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. ]
>
> Addressing these issues is vital to attract new users.
>
> I'm happy to help anyone writing updated tutorial material.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 11:52 AM ppadilcdx--- via fpc-pascal <
> fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>> 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.
>>
>> Regards
>> Pete
>>
>
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