Behind the scene: Writing tutorials

By Emmanuelle Delescolle

Who am I?

  • An average developper
  • Who loves working with Django
  • A woman who codes

Contributing to opensource

What's your github account?

Can be:

Contributing to opensource

  • organizing a conference
  • triaging bugs
  • writing documentation/tutorials
  • maintenance (server/accounts/...)
  • answering questions on forums/SO/IRC/...
  • many other things

It can also be writing code and publishing it on github with an open-source licence

The matter at hand:

Writing tutorials or documentation

🎉 It's easy ! 🎉

$ python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Jul  1 2016, 15:12:24) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print 'Hello world'
Hello world
>>>

You're not writing for yourself

Who are you writing for?

Someone with basic programming knowledge

People with experience in C

Windows users

Mac users

*nix users

Someone with web development knowledge

Someone with a scientific background

Teachers

Now that you know your audience...

The demo effect!

If you might be offended by swearing, please skip the next video

Questions

SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

Question

By Code Ninja on Sept. 18

Hey,
I tried running your code and I get this error:

Steps

Context

Recap

  • Know your audiance
  • Give more instructions than you might think necessary
  • Break up your work into step (maybe different documents even)
  • Make sure to always provide context to your audiance
  • Try your tutorial/documentation for yourself

Questions

Behind the scenes: writing tutorials

By Emma

Behind the scenes: writing tutorials

PyConUK 2016 talk

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