Hello.
I would like to get some opinion on a petite idea I got while reading
the "nextval
parameter is not clear" thread. Because it may not fit well to the
thread itself
I managed to create a new one instead...
+1 (right approach, I was clearly wrong, learning...)
...
The very best example of the approach of a book with runable examples
is the
"The Rust Programming Language" [1][2] aka "The Book". Who has not
known about it,
please give it few minutes to see how it works and what a great
experience it is
to read it. :-)
I actually recorded this interaction. I think this is cool.
And as I think about WHERE this goes, I DEFINITELY believe it goes
in the tutorial world. I love the "peek" and the "play" icons, on mouse over.
And scroll to the bottom of that page.
...
I am also not aware if DB Fiddle or another service allows to run
examples covered
in such tutorial book via some API or not. If not, the results could
still be
"pregenerated" and hardcoded at compile time. Maybe, in this case, it
would be even
better.
If in the tutorial we used this "hiding" technique to explain the code,
but expanded it so it was runnable, that would be awesome.
to either a specific preloaded example, or better, pass in our code...
Especially if we could do it using one CSS/Javascript wrapper!
References:
[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/book (source code of "the book")
[3] https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/format/mdbook.html
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Matous Jan Fialka
Thanks... Let's hope the discussion gets some traction...
