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Oct 07 2022

When you teach programming skills to people with the goal that theyll be able to use them, the most important obligation is not to waste their time or make things seem more complicated than they are. This should be obvious. But when Im helping humanists decide what workshops to take, reviewing introductory materials for classes, or browsing tutorials to adapt for teaching, I see the same violation of the principle again and again. Introductory tutorials waste enormous amounts of time vainly covering ways of accomplishing tasks that not only have absolutely no use for beginners, but which will confuse learners by making them