> Assume readers know the basics or will look them up [...] One of the beautiful things about reading on the internet is that google is just a click away That

> Assume readers know the basics or will look them up [...] One of the beautiful things about reading on the internet is that google is just a click away That doesn't fit my experience writing programming tutorials at all. The people reading them will not "google it". they'll just get confused that you didn't explain everything and they therefore got lost. Certainly the top of the article lists pre-recs and links to them but it's surprising how many people will read lesson number 15 of 40 and skip lessons 1 through 14 and then complain that they didn't understand it. I end up having to spell it out. Bla bla bal (which we covered in lesson 3), does bla bla bla (covered in lesson 7) etc....