We need more interactive programming tutorials. Things such as TryRuby, Codecademy, or VIM Adventures. I've never met anyone who actually enjoyed sifting throug

We need more interactive programming tutorials. Things such as TryRuby, Codecademy, or VIM Adventures. I've never met anyone who actually enjoyed sifting through static text, trying to make heads or tails of what arrays or void pointers were. That's boring, and really disheartening. When I was teaching my girlfriend HTML, she had absolutely no interest in what a tag was, or why it even mattered. She could care less about semantics, mobile design, etc. All she wanted was to create something on screen. After having her use the inspect tool from Chrome, she found it more interesting, and could see values changing. This held her attention for a longer period. Till this day, the best tutorial I've ever read is _why's guide. I've read it several times, because it's super interesting, and extremely entertaining. If more programming tutorials were written this way, I'd be one heck of a developer by now. Why can't authors make their tutorials fun? What's stopping them?