Instructions for Pythonista beginners

[dvader9]

Seeing a few new people join the forum and ask questions lately, I was thinking that it might be good to have someone write a quick intro to the forum, what some of the must-have tools, how to go about getting those setup on Pythonista, and how to increase your library from there. Pythonista-Tools is a great resource once you know how to use GitHub, but I could image there being a need for some extra instructions.

I know some of the hardcore python coders and forum contributors will be best-placed to do so, and can point to best practice. But for example, some tools like gitrepo, New Script from Git, Dropbox File Picker, ui-tutorial, scene tutorial, stash, etc... would be good to include in such a document or post.

So two things, I guess:

1. Perhaps some of the newer forum members and Pythonista users can describe their learning curve, and suggest ways for the rest of this community to help, if it's needed at all.

2. If there is a need, are there any volunteers to put something like that together?

[ihf]

Personally, I would love to see the Pythonista forum on a different platform which would permit notifications, stickies, better organization,and better search capabilities. I don't mean to offend anyone but (IMHO) this is not the best forum platform.

[omz]

Yes, I plan to move the forum pretty soon, probably to UserEcho (see the Textastic forum for an example of how that would look approximately).

[rompy]

ccc, I finally found the blank project page, it was sort of right there in front of me but I was impatient and overlooked it.
Thanks for going to the trouble to help me, I'll try to eventually return the favor to another newbie!

[Dalkey]

@omz Tried UserEcho and found it quite sluggish on my ipad. And a nitpick really but tapping above the URL bar in Safari doesn't return you to the top of the page which is a really handy shortcut. The stickies are nice though. :)

[Saturn031000]

@omz What about Vanilla forums instead? (UserEcho is sluggish for me as well)

[omz]

@Dalkey @Saturn031000 Really? What kind of iPad are you using? It feels pretty snappy for me... I've used Vanilla in the past, and I had massive spam problems with it, and the hosted option is quite expensive.

[Saturn031000]

@omz Its fine on my iPad Air now, but before, I tried it on my iPad 2 and it was sluggish.

[polymerchm]

I might suggest an "index" as a sticky. I am on a number of forum (fora?) and a message that is "sticky" with hyperlinks to the original would be good. Needs a curator. Not volunteering.

[omz]

@Dalkey @Saturn031000 Hmm, I think I know what you mean now. It seems like UserEcho's scrolling is extremely sluggish in landscape mode. No idea what they're doing there, but it's significantly more usable in portrait orientation. I'll have to evaluate a few more options, but everything I've looked at so far has some kind of serious drawback...