sunbeam60 comments on How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 point 1 year 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.

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[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev [S] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

a responsibility to somehow make complicated topics easy

That's what tutorials are for! 😂

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 point 1 year ago (3 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.

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[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

I can’t start the tutorial at 1+1=2

But you can put it in the pre-requisites

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[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev [S] 1 point 1 year 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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