I think it's easy to get hung up on the terms. Take "tutorial", what's the definition of a tutorial exactly, when actual examples of things called "tutorials" d

I think it's easy to get hung up on the terms. Take "tutorial", what's the definition of a tutorial exactly, when actual examples of things called "tutorials" differ so wildly? I find this table helpful to understand the four types model: https://diataxis.fr/compass/ https://diataxis.fr/compass/ This makes two distinctions: step-by-step vs. knowledge, and studying vs. working. The names given to each of the four categories are not the main point in my opinion. If we accept that categorization, then the offical Python tutorial is in the knowledge/studying quadrant IMO, so actually not a "tutorial", but an "explanation"! Which makes complete sense to me, you need an explanation to work with a programming language, and actually defangs most of the criticism in the article. See for yourself, it's not step-by-step at all, instead, you get very small code examples among a sea of explanatory text: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/ https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/ So, yeah, words are used differently by different people.