Re:Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it
by golergka on Thursday June 21, 2018 @07:09AM
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Tutorials are for getting quick bootstrap on the platform. If you want to learn how do something in production, there's usually a manual or official user guide in place.
Re:Learn new technology through writing a tutorial about it
by wastedhours on Friday June 22, 2018 @11:49AM
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But why would you want to bootstrap your knowledge on something detached from your actual use case?
Lots of people on HN bemoan the lack of formalised education and crappy code stitched together, but that's what half arsed tutorials and impenetrable documentation breed.
If you're going to teach things, make it actually work for what the person reading needs. Personally, the chances of me reading a tutorial for interest vs wanting to accomplish a task are minimal.
Tutorials for learning, articles for interest. I'd say you could do the latter without expert knowledge, but the former needs to be pretty tight.
(All of this with the knowledge that imposter syndrome is so prevalent that we don't want to put off technically brilliant people writing tutorials when they think they might not be up to snuff).