A lot of people here are disagreeing on the basis that new language learners want to make something cool quickly. I agree, I've certainly taken the path of tryi

A lot of people here are disagreeing on the basis that new language learners want to make something cool quickly. I agree, I've certainly taken the path of trying to teach fundamentals to people who very quickly lose interest. However, while absolute beginners do need a hook, there's a transition phase that isn't filled: it comes between being able to copy paste SO answers together effectively enough to build a functional product, and actually understanding how that application works. Coming from a JS background, I'd say a close equivalent in the past was frontend devs (gainfully employed as such) who didn't know any javascript; they just knew jQuery. I'm not sure how that's changed today, but I'm guessing the node package ecosystem breeds similar results. I'm no beginner when it comes to programming, but my exposure to Python has been relatively limited up until recently, and as I'm now quite suddenly running some django installs, and trying to work backwards from learning django initially to properly grokking actual python, these are the kind of dedicated resources I can see being of value.