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Better Language Documentation as a whole package for newcomers #760

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jnoortheen opened this issue Feb 3, 2019 · 2 comments
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Better Language Documentation as a whole package for newcomers #760

jnoortheen opened this issue Feb 3, 2019 · 2 comments

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@jnoortheen
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I am a newbie in F# with strong Python background, trying to do some real-world projects to get a good feel of F#.
When I started learning F#, it wasn't a smooth experience. The reason I think are the scattered learning resources and there was no clear path to learn all the basic language constructs.

I have tried some sites suggested in https://fsharp.org/learn.html and they are cluttered and assume that the learner is from C# ecosystem. The books are outdated(using VS and not .NET Core). Other modern languages have great documentation in its main website itself. It gears up the great learning feel.
For example

everything in one place up-to-date and serves as a reference whenever needed during the initial phases of learning curve.

Here I really like the docs of ReasonML which clearly have organized all the topics. I think many people have felt the same and off-putting to learn F#.
Is it possible to clearup the current documentation of the site? I will be more than happy to work on new pages and would translate from ReasonML for F#. But I am no expert in F# as I mentioned before.

@voronoipotato
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I think the excessive focus on C# comes from the fact that some of us came from the .NET ecosystem and so that was what we knew. However I agree I think it's probably poor pedagogical practice. Even F# for fun and profit slightly falls into this trap in the beginning but if you just skip those parts it it's a good resource.

https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/key-concepts/

@jnoortheen
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I heard that the F# docs page is getting a revamp. Maybe it is good time to have a central page for the docs in F# site itself.

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