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Discussion on: Stop Doing Coding Tutorials

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Karl Krasnowsky

Interesting observations and got me thinking about what the more impactful tutorials were for me and why.
What I've realized is, given the technologies evolve so quickly, tutorials written as recent as 6 months ago can become outdated and require attention to figure out solutions for deprecated code.
So this enforces how you figure stuff out rather than simply typing stuff by rote.
Okay, I might complain that the author should keep her/his content up to date, but it helps to challenge me to work through "bugs" that can happen in an everyday work scenario.
I do believe that tutorials can be helpful, especially if it's applicable to something you're currently professionally involved with.