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Ask HN: Best practices for dev-focused How to guides/tutorials?

1 pointsby aeromusekover 8 years ago
What is the best technical tutorial you’ve seen, and why did you love it?<p>Screenshots and code snippets of course, but what about animated GIFs? Succinct numbered steps, or descriptive paragraphs? Are well-edited videos better than text?<p>Background: I’m writing a few basic tutorials on implementing popular mobile app features. I know what <i>I</i> like in a guide, but…confirmation bias is a thing.

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onion2kover 8 years ago
Specific version numbers of everything used and a very clear date the article was written. A message to deprecate it when it&#x27;s out of date too. This is especially important if the article targets an alpha (eg an API may change and the article becomes redundant).