Manimlings? An easier and effective way of learning manim

[KonstantinDjairo]

Questions to probe the reader's understanding

Like they did for the Rust Documentation, they provide a quiz at the end of each session.

https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/

How can the new feature be used?

This way the user can track progress and most important: increase retention when reading the doc
Which in some way, is not different from studying

[MrDiver]

https://docs.manim.community/en/latest/tutorials/quickstart.html ?

The rest is just going through the docs. If you want to write a complete tutorial for manim go for it. I think in general it is very difficult because people have different needs and expectations from manim so i think it is best to just provide good documentation and examples and leave the rest up to the user.

But you are free to write a manim book and make a PR at some point

[MrDiver]

I think we should start working on this in whatever form possible at the current moment. And use this as tracking issue.

[MrDiver]

• We should have a page with a clear outline of where people can find resources for learning programming with python and maybe integrate some terminology into the docs so people have an easier time understanding the differences between things like classes, objects, static methods, functions as parameters and so on.

• Custom Mobjects and a streamlined way for creating them should be a part for experienced users.

• The documentation should provide useful information for short and long time users of the library

• An explanation on how to go past the documentation with information on how to actively use the docs correctly in order to achieve the wanted animations would also be a good idea. (How to search for keywords, and maybe going into the structure of Manim a little, because i think the deepdive is a bit to deep for the average user at the moment)

[MrDiver]

• Writing a guide how to declutter scenes and keep code compact #1352
• [Docs] Quickstart - Transform vs ReplacementTransform #3139
• New Guide or Tutorial: Updater Functions #2902