Tutorial: feedback

[drewgaze]

Hi,

I just completed the beginner tutorial series and have a little feedback. Hopefully the contributors find this helpful.

It would be really nice to have a repo (github?) to checkout instead of having to download each step of the tutorial. I finally downloaded the project in the first step and then added everything else in by hand. Checking out a new branch for each part, or merging a branch in would be nice. It would also allow for a preview of the completed tutorial app's code.

My approach to the tutorial exposed some changes in between steps that aren't mentioned in the tutorial itself. For instance, the updates to WorkerContainer in between 'Creating widgets' and 'Responding to events' are not explained. I think that may be confusing to beginners. Additionally there's no explanation as to why invalidate() is necessary or any of the widget lifecycle methods.

Overall I thought the tutorial was a pretty good experience 👍