Re: Nim beginners tutorial

2019-12-19 Thread adeohluwa
i agree... now give us an intermediate tutorial!

Re: Nim beginners tutorial

2019-12-16 Thread miran
> * Devote an introductory chapter to metaprogramming with a simple DSL > tutorial. > > * And a chapter to major databases connection. (especially SQLite). > > * I really wish you included a topic on concurrency and parallelism and how > you would normally use them in Nim. All these topics go

Re: Nim beginners tutorial

2019-12-16 Thread adnan
Very nice but I really wish you included a topic on concurrency and parallelism and how you would normally use them in Nim. This is something the official tutorial pt 1 and 2 misses out on and would be a great addition to your tutorial.

Re: Nim beginners tutorial

2019-12-16 Thread pouya
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I was busy with some exams. I checked the new EPUB on my Kindle and it looked awesome. Extra white space problem is solved and the TOC works as expected. If its not too much to ask * Devote an introductory chapter to metaprogramming with a simple DSL

Re: Nim beginners tutorial

2019-10-14 Thread Vindaar
I'll check it on my kindle tonight. Ping me on gitter if you don't hear from me until tomorrow.

Re: Nim beginners tutorial

2019-10-14 Thread miran
There is now an experimental .epub version of the tutorial, available at [https://github.com/narimiran/nim-basics/raw/master/nim-basics.epub](https://github.com/narimiran/nim-basics/raw/master/nim-basics.epub) It looks ok when I view it in Calibre, but I don't know how it is on a physical ebook

Re: Nim beginners tutorial

2019-09-27 Thread Stefan_Salewski
Great work miran! Your Asciidoctor css layout looks nice. I was never fully satisfied with the default Asciidoctor style, and also liked the Asciidoctor Stylesheet Factory themes not really. So I tried tuning them a bit, but was not too successful. It seems you tuned CSS for html, pdf and even

Re: Nim beginners tutorial

2019-09-27 Thread ffred60
great ! thanks for the nice PDF version..

Re: Nim beginners tutorial

2019-09-27 Thread Phillips126
Well done! This was one of the resources I used when learning Nim and I'm happy it is continually updated. It's always a struggle when learning a new language and all of the tutorials are outdated. Also, very nice PDF - the design is very clean and easy to read.

Re: Nim beginners tutorial

2019-09-27 Thread miran
To celebrate the release of Nim v1.0, the tutorial has been updated. Several typos and errors have been fixed, but the most noticeable improvement is in the [PDF version](https://github.com/narimiran/nim-basics/raw/master/nim-basics.pdf) of the tutorial, which is now much nicer to read, and

Re: Nim beginners tutorial

2018-09-30 Thread kcvinu
Thanks for this. I found this today.

Nim beginners tutorial

2018-09-29 Thread miran
A new version of [Nim basics](https://narimiran.github.io/nim-basics) tutorial is out. It uses Nim 0.19.0, meaning sequences and strings are automatically initialized so we don't have to do it explicitly. (But there is a note for users of older Nim versions) And if you haven't seen it in the