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Thanks! Developing the theme of technical sophistication has been one of the most surprising and gratifying side-effects of making tutorials designed for comple
by mhartl 11y ago
Thanks! Developing the theme of technical sophistication has been one of the most surprising and gratifying side-effects of making tutorials designed for complete beginners. I'm hoping to continue the theme in each subsequent Learn Enough tutorial, and I'm thinking of adding it to the next edition of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial as well.
- BWStearns 11y agoPlease do! It really struck me as a theme that I hope grows beyond a Hartl-only concept. It succinctly describes a previously unnamed concept. It's the thing that you want to impart when you get that exasperated feeling trying to explain over the phone to a non-technical friend/relative how to go about fixing something that you yourself don't explicitly know how to fix but could easily if you were sitting at their computer. More broadly have you though about a generic way to achieve/impart technical sophistication intentionally other than as a side effect of getting scraped knees doing technical things?
- mhartl 11y agoMore broadly have you though about a generic way to achieve/impart technical sophistication intentionally other than as a side effect of getting scraped knees doing technical things? I don't think there's any way to avoid getting a few battle scars, but just knowing about the idea of technical sophistication (and having a name for it) turns out to be a huge help, as you observed.