Beginner-Friendly Tutorial and Documentation to Promote the Use of NASA Open MCT

[MarkCodering]

Hi there,

As a user and developer of the NASA Open MCT application for years, I found it could be difficult for beginners to this framework to build and test an application developed with NASA Open MCT. Therefore, I proposed to create beginner-friendly documentation or tutorial while promoting the use of NASA Open MCT in colleges worldwide.

Target Audience:

• Student Team for building a sounding rocket, SAE race car, etc.
• Academic Departments with no or few computer science backgrounds

How to?

• Explain the documentation and tutorial in a much simple terms
• Use the graphic presentation to explain abstract concepts in the framework

[marcelo-earth]

I support this because the previous documentation graphics to explain the core of OpenMCT was really helpful:

[Kokodora]

Hey, I thought the same! Did you know about this series:
#4894

[koyuul]

Thread is 2 years old, but just wanted to say that based on my experience, I also think the documentation should be touched up a bit more. The tutorial still has some deprecated time commands in it, and I felt that the time API documentation in general was a bit hard to work with and understand.

Could just be me, but I feel like the relationships between the clock, time system, bounds, clock offsets could be defined clearer (maybe with a diagram or something). Also on that note, I feel like the examples such as the defining and registering clocks example would work better if they included actual example functions instead of leaving a comment showing where the working function would be. I know that the actual implementations would vary in a real application, but a concretely implemented function example would be helpful in seeing what your own should look like.

Don't mean to be rude or anything, I am enjoying using it overall but think updating the docs would be helpful 😄

[pdelv]

I think it would be great!