When I taught myself to program, there was no internet. You went and bought an enormous, 800 page book (usually written by Charles Petzold) and you hoped to Darwin something, anything would be understandable and lead you to move forward just a little bit.

If it’s worthwhile doing it’s hard.

[–] Matthew@midwest.social 8 points 6 days ago (6 children)

You recognize the feelings of the author and relate to them personally with Charles Petzold's writing from back when, and say they need to grow up?

I think it's a little reductive to say the author just wants everything to be easy.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Help me understand what the author is trying to say, please. It could be I’m missing something. It just reads to me like the author feels everybody else has a responsibility to somehow make complicated topics easy.

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

a responsibility to somehow make complicated topics easy

That's what tutorials are for! 😂

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Some topics are just complicated. If I write you a tutorial in fast Fourier transforms I can’t start the tutorial at 1+1=2.

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can’t start the tutorial at 1+1=2

But you can put it in the pre-requisites

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Of course. But that wasn’t the complaint/satire of the satirist whose article we’re discussing.

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

Of course. But that wasn’t the complaint/satire of the satirist whose article we’re discussing

I think you'll find that's a huge part of the complaint - unexplained terminology. See Microsoft tutorials that never tell you what any of their TLA's are, nor link to any explanations of them, exactly as is satirised

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