# The JuliaDebug repo: how to be helpful to newbies (and old hands as well)?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-juliadebug-repo-how-to-be-helpful-to-newbies-and-old-hands-as-well/47618
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [October 1, 2020, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-juliadebug-repo-how-to-be-helpful-to-newbies-and-old-hands-as-well/47618 "2020-10-01T21:41:54Z")
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### Author: ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-juliadebug-repo-how-to-be-helpful-to-newbies-and-old-hands-as-well/47618/7 "2020-10-02T13:45:03Z")

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> [@Non-friendly documentation](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/non-friendly-documentation/38109/135):
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> I would like to point out that I found the Julia manual helpful when I started using it. But in truth some of the things made sense only a long way down the road, and some I skipped, at least initially. In my opinion the manual blurs together the four kinds of user documentation, with attendant reduction in efficiency. In other words, the four “boxes” are visited in this single document with little or no separation. I personally try to follow in my own packages the view of the sw…

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