Developer Guides

[remiduchalard]

I realy enjoy corona, it’s very easy to use it but there is not enought tuto to help new dev.

This tuto is cristal clear. Is it possible to have more like this one. For example I have difficulties to understand some value of display.setDefault(). It would be great if you add some js in your page. If we need to have more information on something we click on it and it appear more information with gif or something like that. I purpose some js(or something like that) to don’t have very large page who is useless for advance dev.

If you have more guide, you will have more dev on corona.

[bjsorrentino]

Hi @remiduchalard,

I am primarily responsible for our guides and documentation. Can you give me an example of a guide which does not seem very useful to you? And also explain how you would like to see it specifically improved? This will help me understand the exact type of changes which I might make over time.

Thanks,

Brent

[remiduchalard]

I will be realy happy to help you to improve the guide!

I think tips in http://spiralcodestudio.com/ are very usefull. There is things I have never heard about. Like have condition in equation. We learn lua with corona, I think there not many user who know lua before know corona. For example, I know C, C++, C#, Java, Python… but I discover Lua with corona, I realy enjoy this langage. And at the begining I look only in corona site how lua work.

In this https://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/basics/optimization/index.html it would be great if the user want to know more about the optimization (https://www.lua.org/gems/sample.pdf). And give some good practice (it’s don’t improve perf but it help to don’t have bug), like create destructor when we display things.

I use corona to make large game, it’s made a few year I work with it and I haven’t understand what is composer, scene or what I will win to use it.

About physics, do you have any stats of use? I realy don’t understand why there is people who use it. I find easier to rewrite my own physics engine and have very higher perf.

It could be great to receive notification by email when there things update in guide (for user who are active in forum (other are not interest in it).

My suggestion are perhaps actualy useless because you update it. Corona change fast.

It can be great to have the same design for all page of the site of corona and when we do research in forum it can sugest page of guide or api…

Best regards

Rémi du chalard

[bgmadclown]

Hi Brent,

Since we are talking about Guides & Docs, I for one found “Getting Started” guide a bit hard to read and follow. I’m no longer a newbie but I think it’s a huge tall wall in front of the newcomers. How about creating a “Getting Started Video Guide” to show Corona’s simplicity better? I’m pretty sure you’ll have far better conversion.

[remiduchalard]

@bgmadclown,

I agree with you but I don’t think, video it’s a good idea. Because it take a lot of time to look at.

I think it would be great to improve sample project. For example one on default value, because there is thing I haven’t understand. If we have buton to change value and we see the result.

And perhaps add some framework project

It would be great if on corona website we can consult sample or on a git. And everyone can purpose improve to it.

[bgmadclown]

Well, from a starter’s point of view, I would prefer a video guide over a wall of text.
I’ve learned Corona by developing small, stupid, simple projects with Corona docs and official Lua docs as my main source but if there were any good video tutorials out at that moment, I would have used those as well.

[bjsorrentino]

Hi @remiduchalard,

I am primarily responsible for our guides and documentation. Can you give me an example of a guide which does not seem very useful to you? And also explain how you would like to see it specifically improved? This will help me understand the exact type of changes which I might make over time.

Thanks,

Brent

[remiduchalard]

I will be realy happy to help you to improve the guide!

I think tips in http://spiralcodestudio.com/ are very usefull. There is things I have never heard about. Like have condition in equation. We learn lua with corona, I think there not many user who know lua before know corona. For example, I know C, C++, C#, Java, Python… but I discover Lua with corona, I realy enjoy this langage. And at the begining I look only in corona site how lua work.

In this https://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/basics/optimization/index.html it would be great if the user want to know more about the optimization (https://www.lua.org/gems/sample.pdf). And give some good practice (it’s don’t improve perf but it help to don’t have bug), like create destructor when we display things.

I use corona to make large game, it’s made a few year I work with it and I haven’t understand what is composer, scene or what I will win to use it.

About physics, do you have any stats of use? I realy don’t understand why there is people who use it. I find easier to rewrite my own physics engine and have very higher perf.

It could be great to receive notification by email when there things update in guide (for user who are active in forum (other are not interest in it).

My suggestion are perhaps actualy useless because you update it. Corona change fast.

It can be great to have the same design for all page of the site of corona and when we do research in forum it can sugest page of guide or api…

Best regards

Rémi du chalard

[bgmadclown]

Hi Brent,

Since we are talking about Guides & Docs, I for one found “Getting Started” guide a bit hard to read and follow. I’m no longer a newbie but I think it’s a huge tall wall in front of the newcomers. How about creating a “Getting Started Video Guide” to show Corona’s simplicity better? I’m pretty sure you’ll have far better conversion.

[remiduchalard]

@bgmadclown,

I agree with you but I don’t think, video it’s a good idea. Because it take a lot of time to look at.

I think it would be great to improve sample project. For example one on default value, because there is thing I haven’t understand. If we have buton to change value and we see the result.

And perhaps add some framework project

It would be great if on corona website we can consult sample or on a git. And everyone can purpose improve to it.

[bgmadclown]

Well, from a starter’s point of view, I would prefer a video guide over a wall of text.
I’ve learned Corona by developing small, stupid, simple projects with Corona docs and official Lua docs as my main source but if there were any good video tutorials out at that moment, I would have used those as well.