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That might explain why so many people learning a novel programming language start, but nearly never finish, writing a book or tutorial about it. For example, t
by ksaj 5y ago
That might explain why so many people learning a novel programming language start, but nearly never finish, writing a book or tutorial about it.
For example, there are far more incomplete Common Lisp tutorials than there are working / fleshed out code examples on GitHub. The endless unfinished tutorials and "books" are suspiciously similar, and nearly always give up at the same not-yet-practical level.
The same goes for other technical subjects. Raspberry Pi is another area where you can find different versions of nearly the exact same incomplete tutorials everywhere.
- pvarangot 5y agoThis is because there's a point where you can do something but you don't know how, less even how to explain it. If you ever mentor a more junior engineer this comes up all the time, like "yeah I have no idea why you broke the build, we can fix it together but I am not sure I can step by step explain all my actions".