Help:Adding a new programming example: Difference between revisions

{{#set:is contribution page=true}}So you want to contribute code, eh? If you've used wikis before, it's actually very easy. If not, then you'll need a few pointers to get started.

To add your own programming example, you must [[:Category:Solutions by Programming Task|navigate]] to the programming task to which you wish to add a solution to. Once you find your task, go ahead and click the Edit tab at the top of the page, find the place in the list of languages already applied where your language would fall alphabetically, and make your changes.

<nowiki>=={{header|C}}==

Optional text explaining stuff

<codesyntaxhighlight lang="Cc">

int main ( void ) {

// Some code here

}

The &lt;code&gt;<nowiki><syntaxhighlight></nowiki> tags enclose the actual example, and allow [[Help::Syntax_highlighting |syntax highlighting]], which includes proper formatting for white space. Some languages don't have syntax highlighting support, but using the syntaxhighlight tags will not break anything. If your language is not supported, it will be as if you used pre tags. If support is added later, your example will automatically be highlighted, so add the lang tags no matter what. It is not necessary the the language parameter of the syntax highlighter match the actual language name. Even if your language is not specifically supported you may find a different language syntax highlighter is close enough.