What is tutorial hell for you?

Here's my definition of tutorial hell:

What's yours?

Comments

[mikcat]

The Amazon AWS documentation, no matter what you want to do, always links to something you had to be done before and I still haven't reached the beginning...

[Ricardo]

Been there

[NLxDoDge]

Using an out of date tutorial or a tutorial that in the end doesn't even work anymore.

[Vicente G. Reyes]

I see. But isn't part of our job figuring out code?

[NLxDoDge]

Correct, but if you then copy paste some non standard code as a beginner it made it the more confusing.

So I never follow tutorials anymore, I just search the things I need myself in the documentation of the Framework/Language.

[Vicente G. Reyes]

Same, man! Cheers!

[Ricardo]

Tutorial that doesn’t work anymore or never worked