Merge pull request #2889 from stevepiercy/docs-cookiecutter-changes-only

Docs cookiecutter changes only - Quick Tutorial and all other files

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/docs/quick_tutorial/tutorial_approach.rst b/docs/quick_tutorial/tutorial_approach.rst
index 49a6bfd85..8da9f71b3 100644
--- a/docs/quick_tutorial/tutorial_approach.rst
+++ b/docs/quick_tutorial/tutorial_approach.rst
@@ -7,25 +7,16 @@ Details, references, and deeper discussions are mentioned in "See also" notes.
 
 .. seealso:: This is an example "See also" note.
 
-This "Getting Started" tutorial is broken into independent steps, starting with
-the smallest possible "single file WSGI app" example. Each of these steps
-introduce a topic and a very small set of concepts via working code. The steps
-each correspond to a directory in this repo, where each step/topic/directory is
-a Python package.
-
-To successfully run each step:
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
-    $ cd request_response
-    $ $VENV/bin/pip install -e .
-
-...and repeat for each step you would like to work on. In most cases we will
-start with the results of an earlier step.
 
 Directory tree
 ==============
 
+This "Getting Started" tutorial is broken into independent steps, starting with
+the smallest possible "single file WSGI app" example. Each of these steps
+introduces a topic and a very small set of concepts via working code. The steps
+each correspond to a directory in our workspace, where each step's directory is
+a Python package.
+
 As we develop our tutorial, our directory tree will resemble the structure
 below:
 
@@ -41,7 +32,15 @@ below:
             │── development.ini
             `── setup.py
 
-Each of the first-level directories (e.g., ``request_response``) is a *Python
+Each of the directories in our ``quick_tutorial`` workspace (e.g., ``request_response``) is a *Python
 project* (except as noted for the ``hello_world`` step). The ``tutorial``
-directory is a *Python package*. At the end of each step, we copy a previous
-directory into a new directory to use as a starting point.
+directory is a *Python package*.
+
+For most steps you will copy the previous step's directory to a new directory, and change your working directory to the new directory, then install your project:
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+    $ cd ..; cp -r package ini; cd ini
+    $ $VENV/bin/pip install -e .
+
+For a few steps, you won't copy the previous step's directory, but you will still need to install your project with ``$VENV/bin/pip install -e .``.