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Feb 9th, 2013, 08:59 PM
#1
No Forum Section For Articles and Tutorials???
Im amazed that after all these years there was never a section added for users to submit their own articles or tutorials to teach and help educate other programmers. Sites such as gamedev.net has this, and it has certainly helped me over the years. I would like to request a section to be created as currently if i was to submit anything now, there would be no correct section in the forums to put it in. You can even categorize them such as gaming, general programming, and others, whatever you feel should be a category. I feel vbforums should be more than just a place to ask questions and submit code, but to be a place to teach others with articles and tutorials. And people can reply to them. Just an idea.
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Feb 10th, 2013, 10:12 AM
#2
Re: No Forum Section For Articles and Tutorials???
There are already two forums for that:
UtilityBank - Tutorials
Visual Basic FAQs (only a good idea if there is an "index" page for the subject, such as Database Development or VB6)
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Feb 10th, 2013, 01:00 PM
#3
Re: No Forum Section For Articles and Tutorials???
But I figured Utility Bank would be...well for utilities such as addons or controls. Its a little cryptic. And tutorials and articles should be its own section. Otherwise noone is gonna know.
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Feb 10th, 2013, 05:07 PM
#4
Re: No Forum Section For Articles and Tutorials???
Another section would probably be a bit clearer, but plenty of people find it as it is - presumably because it is listed directly on our main page.
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Feb 10th, 2013, 06:01 PM
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Re: No Forum Section For Articles and Tutorials???
Originally Posted by si_the_geek
Another section would probably be a bit clearer, but plenty of people find it as it is - presumably because it is listed directly on our main page.
Maybe it would be a good idea to extend those forum descriptions a bit more and/or more them right into peoples line of sight.
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Feb 11th, 2013, 09:42 AM
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Re: No Forum Section For Articles and Tutorials???
A lot of people submit their articles to Codeguru's VB section since it is related to this site. We could create a content/article section on the forum if the mods and community are willing to manage it.
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Feb 12th, 2013, 11:31 PM
#7
Re: No Forum Section For Articles and Tutorials???
Yeah i think you should definitely do it, and have in maybe a few categories. This will help vbforums expand and continue to help the programming community. In my opinion, having tutorials completely hidden in utility bank isnt a good idea
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Feb 19th, 2013, 03:08 AM
#8
Re: No Forum Section For Articles and Tutorials???
I didn't even know there was a utility bank for tutorials.....I think just now is the first time I actually went there. I've written two articles and posted those in the CodeBank. It seemed appropriate as they are accompanied by code that demonstrates what they were about. I don't think as many people may have found them if it was posted in the utility bank.
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Feb 23rd, 2013, 10:17 PM
#9
Re: No Forum Section For Articles and Tutorials???
I think the CodeBank sections get used for this a lot. After all, just tossing a blob of code with a description header on it doesn't work except for the most trivial things.
Lots of examples require extensive explanation such as several stages of required effort (installation of prerequisites, administrative environment setup, special build processes, and so on).
I'm not sure that a new forum for tutorials is needed since UtilityBank - Tutorials exists. But it doesn't seem to have the necessary visibility there. I don't have a fix, just a comment that we probably don't need an additional forum.
Maybe move it to General, next to Code It Better?
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Feb 24th, 2013, 02:08 PM
#10
Re: No Forum Section For Articles and Tutorials???
Wow, I checked out a few of the existing "tutorials."
Most don't come close to adhering to the posting guidelines for that forum. Few even seem to be tutorials, consisting instead of opinion pieces or code snippets more suited to a CodeBank submission.
I guess it's a sort of dumping ground forum.
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