Reordering the tutorials?

[ParadaCarleton]

Looking at the tutorials, the ordering looks a bit random. Perhaps we should reorder the tutorials, roughly in order from least to most advanced, to make it easier to understand them? I'd suggest something like:

1. Introduction
2. Linear regression
3. Logistic regression
4. Multinomial regression
5. Poisson regression
6. Gaussian mixture model
7. Infinite mixture model
8. Variational inference
9. Bayesian neural networks
10. Bayesian differential equations
11. Hidden Markov models

So the order goes from easy to difficult; this order also keeps generalized models together with their more specific instances (e.g. logistic regression is followed by multinomial regression).

I can make the PR if you guys are interested.

[cpfiffer]

Yep, I like that ordering. Currently they're just organized in the order that they were written, which is not super great as you've noted.

The big issue here is that moving everything around will break all the old links to these tutorials, which isn't super great. I'm kind of tilting towards not rearranging them for just that reason, but I'm very open to being persuaded.

[ParadaCarleton]

Yep, I like that ordering. Currently they're just organized in the order that they were written, which is not super great as you've noted.

The big issue here is that moving everything around will break all the old links to these tutorials, which isn't super great. I'm kind of tilting towards not rearranging them for just that reason, but I'm very open to being persuaded.

Perhaps we could redirect the old links to the new links, and remove the numbers from the link so this won't be a problem in the future?

[cpfiffer]

Sure, why not? I'm open to a PR.

[ParadaCarleton]

Sure, why not? I'm open to a PR.

Cool, I'll make a PR here; do you know who usually handles the JS and such for the website and could get a redirect link working? I don't know how to do web dev.

[rikhuijzer]

Cool, I'll make a PR here; do you know who usually handles the JS and such for the website and could get a redirect link working?

You need to figure out how people do it in Franklin.jl. Redirects are a native HTML construct, by the way, not Javascript per se.

[rikhuijzer]

Oh sorry. Turing isn’t using Franklin. Then, just place the correct redirect files at the right places, I guess

[ParadaCarleton]

Oh sorry. Turing isn’t using Franklin. Then, just place the correct redirect files at the right places, I guess

What would those places be?

[KronosTheLate]

Big +1 on reordering the tutorials - as a newcomer, the current order is indeed confusing. Worse than that, it starts with subjects that sound daunting to me, killing the "let's start at the beginning and learn this stuff!" feeling/motivation right away.