I really wish programming tutorials for absolute beginners were exactly like that. Like please program my dumb ass to learn programming.
Ideally a tutorial would Just assume I know nothing at all. In fact, assume I'm some medieval serf from 1320, motherfucker. Assume I've never heard of a computer before, never mind used one. Assume I've lost two dozen children to the plague, scurvy, smallpox, and conscription into wars with neighboring fiefdoms. Assume I'm currently imprisoned in the oubliette for hiding grain under my floorboards. Assume I speak in such a thick accent from bumfuck nowhere that it is entirely unintelligible to both contemporary nobility and modern English speakers alike. Assume I'm illiterate. Assume I've never washed my penis before. Assume I've never wiped my ass.
I'm talking about a tutorial that involves a thorough description of each and every click of the mouse. Rigorously define every single word that has programming relevance. Leave no stone unturned, if you're even slightly vague about any step I guarantee you I will fuck it up! It'd be sick as hell if such a lesson plan existed for every common programming language
i would not describe myself as a coder, but people i work with would. because i can, if needed, write simple code and develop custom / responsive interfaces and web-based decision making tools. a lot of the tools i use will confront me with the need to put together some relatively complex conditional statement or query, or to design a function and parse some data and make it readable to some tool.
i took a comp sci class at in the 90s and the first unit was Karel/Karel the Robot. i remember thinking it was dumb and how i wanted to be like coding phreak shyte and cracking the warez like tha riddler, but i'm glad that was the foundation now because languages seem to come and go, and be application specific anyway. i had to learn C when i was 19 and let me tell you how i never used it again. anyway, so it was helpful to learn a programming language that was designed to be learned, to edify and draw the learner in to programming conceptually with functions, loops, conditionals, etc.