Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge @ItsCaseyDambit. We tend to have more strict requirements for the topics in the "Introductory Tutorials" board than in the other forum boards. I do think your tutorial would be much more useful if you posted it directly here on the forum. I find it less enjoyable to read that much text as a comment in a sketch.
ItsCaseyDambit:
I guess I should know what OP means, but I don't.
"OP, can you please post your tutorial correctly with "QUOTES" and </> CODE tags?"
Half of what you're saying is beyond my feeble mind.
@lastchancename is talking about the forum markup. You can use the button on the post toolbar that looks like a speech bubble to insert quote tags. If the toolbar isn't shown in your browser (I think it doesn't on the mobile version of the forum), you can just write the markup tags yourself:
[quote]
[color=blue]quoted text here[/color]
[/quote]
That is rendered like this:
quoted text here
I'm actually not sure whether there is anything in your tutorial that would require quote tags, but it is a useful thing to know about.
There certainly is need for code tags on the code in the tutorial. You can use the button on the post toolbar that looks like a speech bubble to insert quote tags. If the toolbar isn't shown in your browser (I think it doesn't on the mobile version of the forum), you can just write the markup tags yourself:
[code]``[color=blue]// your code is here[/color]``[/code]
That renders as:
// your code is here
The reason code tags are important is that, without code tags, the forum software can interpret parts of your code as markup, and mess up the program. For example, if you post this code:
for (byte i = 0; i < 42; i++) {
readings[i] = digitalRead(8);
delay(10);
}
without code tags, it is rendered like this on the forum:
for (byte i = 0; i < 42; i++) {
readings = digitalRead(8);
Notice the italics and the smiley face, that's no good!
Code tags also make it easier to read code (because it doesn't wrap lines) and to copy it to our IDE.
