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Turn reference docs into a tutorial
Documentation that lists every option but never shows you how to start.
The documentation below is reference material. Turn it into a tutorial. 1. Pick one realistic thing a person would want to build with this, and say what it is. 2. Get me to a working result as fast as possible, even a trivial one. The first milestone should come before any conceptual explanation. 3. Build it up in steps. Each step must produce something I can run or observe, and must say what I should see. 4. Introduce concepts only at the moment they become necessary, not up front. 5. At each step, name the mistake most likely to be made and what the error looks like. 6. Finish with what to read next in the reference, now that I have context. Ignore options and parameters that the example does not need. Documentation:
Making it yours
- Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
- Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
- If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.
Practice, not reading. Worked examples, exercises and Socratic sessions that make you do the thinking.
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Teach me by asking, not tellingA concept you want to actually internalise rather than skim.Work through an example, showing the decisionsWhen you understand a technique in the abstract but not how to apply it.Practice problems, answers withheldReading has stopped working and you need to actually do it.Make me predict firstWhen you want the explanation to stick rather than slide past.Explain this at three levels of depthFirst contact with a concept, when you don't yet know how deep you need to go.What is the one idea that unlocks this?A subject where you have learned the parts but it still hasn't clicked.
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