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by platelets2020 1992 days ago
As far as I can tell, this "visual guide" is nothing more than:

1. Taking screenshots of code.

2. Taking screenshots of code and putting the array values inside of blue boxes.

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Wow those diagrams are extremely well thought out and clear to understand. Saying they’re just blue boxes is a huge understatement. Visualising highly conceptual topics like numerical programming is not an easy skill, and the more the better.
Your comment is just a bunch of letters typed out as words in a sentence without any sort of insight and just providing a reductionist view.

It’s so much more than that. This is not what HN community is about.

Actually, it also has

3. A thought-provoking text in between, but apparently didn't hit the target in your case.

Yes. Does it mean it's bad? For people that just start to learn the library, it's sometimes useful to have a visual representation. Also, helpful to have a list of main features.
The second half of #2 qualifies as fine art to my meager artistic abilities.
Need it be more?
Yes! Text which can be copy pasted!
3245 words should be more than enough for that :) My greatest concern about the text that it would be too much of it for something called "Visual Guide", so I tried hard to keep it to bare minimum.