I like this, as it's how I learned programming back in ~2004-2008. Back then, "how to make X" was the typical format of tutorial you would find at tutorial aggregators or publishers. e.g. "how to make a membership system in PHP." I always enjoyed these guides much more than generic "how OOP works" because they gave me something to build, with step-by-step instructions to verify I'm doing it right, and that I could extend for my purposes once I got it working.
Nowadays content is much more generic and you see a lot less "indie tutorial" type content. Either you read someone's blogpost on a complex, niche technical topic, or you pay for an introductory course / bootcamp that teaches in the more traditional tutorial style. It's kind of sad that the attitude of freely sharing "how to do X" has been co-opted by profit-seeing education programs.
P.S. I see from your website that you're a high school runner? Very cool! I ran XC/Track all throughout high school and in college at the D1 level... let me know if you ever want to chat about recruiting or anything, it looks like you're a decent runner based on your tempo times.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 34.5 ms ] threadNowadays content is much more generic and you see a lot less "indie tutorial" type content. Either you read someone's blogpost on a complex, niche technical topic, or you pay for an introductory course / bootcamp that teaches in the more traditional tutorial style. It's kind of sad that the attitude of freely sharing "how to do X" has been co-opted by profit-seeing education programs.
P.S. I see from your website that you're a high school runner? Very cool! I ran XC/Track all throughout high school and in college at the D1 level... let me know if you ever want to chat about recruiting or anything, it looks like you're a decent runner based on your tempo times.