nimforum mirror - Great tutorials needed

FartCanister (orginal) [2019-09-24T11:34:57+02:00] view original

Is there any getting started tutorials for Nim? I mean nice and clear step by step tutorials with great explanation, infographics, maybe video playlist on Youtube channel e.t.c. Also with real-world examples.

miran (orginal) [2019-09-24T11:37:18+02:00] view original

We have these: https://nim-lang.org/learn.html

Whether those are "nice and clear step by step tutorials with great explanation" it is up to the reader to decide.

ffred60 (orginal) [2019-09-24T13:16:58+02:00] view original

the first one on the learn page, "Nim Basics", is the better one to start.

https://narimiran.github.io/nim-basics/

is the "miran" in "narimiran" the same as @miran ? if so, nice work, thanks !

miran (orginal) [2019-09-24T13:36:34+02:00] view original

is the "miran" in "narimiran" the same as @miran ? if so, nice work, thanks !

It is, thanks :)

ffred60 (orginal) [2019-09-25T08:00:27+02:00] view original

but clearly, Nim still needs more tutorials, tips, info, blogs about it.. so hope that with v1.0 Nim's community will grow and more people will contribute.

Libman (orginal) [2019-09-26T01:43:12+02:00] view original

Is there any getting started tutorials for Nim?

In addition to what was mentioned above, the great Nim In Action book is available on BitTo^H^H^H^H^H ... err ... I mean ... It's available on Amazon! And elsewhere.

maybe video playlist on Youtube channel

I have one with currently 56 Nim-related videos (English).

Also with real-world examples.

There are 3476 Nim repos on GitHub - hopefully some of them qualify as "real-world"...

ffred60 (orginal) [2019-09-26T06:20:53+02:00] view original

Nim in Action is a good book (bought the ebook version to read during last holidays.. ), but that's not really what I would suggest as the first thing to read for a Nim beginner. you should start with the tutorials on the Nim learn page and then if you want more, don't hesitate and get "Nim in Action".

now that we have reach v1.0, maybe we could hope for more Nim books..

and to @Libman, how could you mention hacking the book!? that's the only one we have on Nim, if it makes no money, how could we have another ??

SebastianM (orginal) [2019-09-26T10:41:25+02:00] view original

There are clips from OSCON 2015 where ARAQ presents Nim. Its about 2.5 h of material. It's available via Safari Books Online. Maybe community could take back the copyright and add it to the learning materials.

Additionally I think that Nim official tutorial, standard library and the rest of the doc should be packed together as an epub file, just like python community maintains.

I know that all that stuff is packed with Nim distribution as .rst files, but from my experiments with pandoc I found that the formattingof resulting epub, mobi or odt file is a little broken. Or maybe I'm too unexperienced.

Anyway huge thanks to all of you guys. The future is ours!

Libman (orginal) [2019-09-26T18:42:08+02:00] view original

I encourage everyone to BUY the book.

aredirect (orginal) [2019-09-26T19:34:10+02:00] view original

I encourage you to check my Nim days book https://xmonader.github.io/nimdays/ basically you will follow the steps for