there are three kinds of programming tutorials:

[kasdeya@cryptid.cafe]

there are three kinds of programming tutorials:

• "look man we both know you don't wanna learn this shit so just install 30 GB of random frameworks and here's the code to copy-paste if you wanna make a basic game and feel like you accomplished something. I'm not gonna explain how any of this works because nobody cares as long as your little guy jumps when you press spacebar"
• "an endofunctor is a type of monoid which is a subcategory of monad that is variadic over the set of all impure lambdas - therefore all possible expressions in this language can be modeled after- wait where are you going?"
• "this is called a variable! a variable is a little friend that can hold onto something called a value! variables love grabbing values and they can even carry them into functions! say hi, variable!"

[absentabigail@lgbtqia.space]

@kasdeya A lot of tutorials I've seen struggle with just keeping a consistent level for a target audience
Like explaining how to set up an IDE and then not explaining basic programming concepts

[swelljoe@mas.to]

@AbsentAbigail @kasdeya I think that happens because they understand that part well enough to teach it, but they're fuzzy on the rest so they gloss over the bits they don't understand about the more advanced material.