Re:Enough already with the lame “tutorials”
by bronxcoder on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @02:24PM
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I'm not asking for job-relevant training material. It would just be more fun if tutorials were trying out different ideas. I relate it to if all authors wrote the same story you would be frustrated after a while that no authors were telling different stories.
For instance, whenever I find a new framework or methodology, I'll build out a replica of a whatever phone app is the du jour of the moment. Building the same app over and over again gets boring after a while and doesn't push your line of thinking. But that's just my opinion.
And, you know, people do. A tutorial app isn't the extent of what the author tried out, its something where the author felt would provide a good basis for pedagogy on the tool it is a tutorial for.
> And if you're going to do a To Do app, or any tutorial for that matter, it should include tests as testing is a priority when building real world applications.
Plenty of tutorials include testing, but if the framework being demonstrated isn't particularly special in terms of testing given the language and other aspects of the platform, there's not necessarily a compelling reason for every tutorial to do so.
Seems to me the complaint here is "people supplying job-relevant training material to the world for free aren't always doing it exactly the way I'd prefer to have it", which is pretty entitled.