> In many fields you're expected to work at some higher abstraction level above "how things really are working", in which case all the tutorials will use the pr

> In many fields you're expected to work at some higher abstraction level above "how things really are working", in which case all the tutorials will use the primitives of that abstraction level. Great point, I used ML only as an example, GraphQL was another that came up in comments. Books are a good resource, or college literature for example, but from an approachable point of view, without knowing the 'basics' it's hard to consume.