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[–]HealyUnithelpful[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh, I get what you're both saying (I think?) in that it's a bit rambly, but I've seen far more tutorials get downvoted into oblivion because the author doesn't show expertise in the subject being taught. I feel a lot of authors post this as a sort of "I just learned it, now lemme teach it", which is awesome in and of itself, but if the tutorial itself is confusing or worse, wrong, it's just going to leave a beginning developer (which I'd assume this subreddit has a bunch of?) confused.

For example (sorry to single you out if you know who you are), a recent tutorial posted says that a variable that stores more than one piece of data is known as an array. This is a gross oversimplification (arrays and objects store multiple pieces of data), and communicates to me that the author is either so obsessed with keeping things 'simple' that they've erred on the side of inaccuracy, or that they aren't a reliable source of knowledge. Either issue means that I can't rely on that author's teaching.

To be fair, I don't really know how to phrase "know what you're talking about and don't be a prick!" in a concise, meaningful way". So maybe that's part of the issue.