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# toad.dev

## Documentation philosophy
The ToAD project follows the [divio documentation system](https://documentation.divio.com/) philosophy,
which at a high level encourages documentation authors to think in terms of 4 types of documentation that
solve fundamentally different problems:
```
^
TUTORIALS | HOW DO I _
practical
|
|
<-- studying ----- working -->
|
|
theoretical
EXPLANATION | REFERENCE
v
```

## Tutorials
_Learning Oriented_

### Who
People unfamiliar with the project, curious about CoAP

### Why
Make the project approachable, with recipes for success that
people with little context can follow and have a working solution to
a problem.

### What
* meaningful
* achievable
* valuable
* zero assumed shared context

### Where
toad.dev Book

## How-To
_Solutions to specific problems users are likely to encounter, answers to questions they're likely to have_

### Who
People with some experience, working directly with the project

### Why
Make common issues, questions, problems easily solvable. Offer atomic guides that offer a lot of value
in a little copy

### What
* meaningful
* specific
* non-explanatory
* documents assumed shared context

### Where
* blogposts?
* wiki?
* faq?

## Explanation
_clarify and illuminate various topics; broaden a documentation's coverage of a topic; understanding-oriented_

### Who
Anyone at any level of experience or context (think **dictionary** or **wikipedia**)