Most tutorials aren’t for non-developers. They’re not for developers, either. They’re a bunch of prose I want to skip, and then I finally get to the steps I’m really looking for, but the author left one out, or assumed some weird development environment or IDE I’m not using, and I have to give up and go back to Google again.

The problem is that writing is hard, because it’s for people outside of your head, while you’re inside of it. As toddlers we learn that our senses aren’t immediately accessible to other people, but many of us never master the art of remembering that knowledge and experience inside our heads isn’t available to you, the reader, until we write it down.

Oh, and maybe if folks thought “cookbook” instead of “tutorial” when they’re writing, the result might be organized better for the rest of us to use, and less likely to become useless after the next point release.