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How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog (anniemueller.com)

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[–] backlever@programming.dev 18 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Imagine a chemistry lab tutorial aimed at 9th grade students getting "as a non-chemist, this reads as gibberish" comments from first graders. Nobody would blame the tutorial authors.

People need to start putting in the effort. There is no such thing as learning for free.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

RTFM is a form of self help that really should return to the modern zeitgeist

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

RTFM

The problem is the manuals which are written exactly as described in the post

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