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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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[–] 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