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Want proof of that? Look at the success of W3Schools.com. The Web is full of materials to learn the same things. The quick “here’s the solution — don’t worry about how it works right now” are the most successful ones. We also have a Web full of systems that lack very basic quality and security features and we spend months educating hires in companies what developing production code means when you protect the data of our users. I think it is time to stop chasing the hollow success of creating a “quick tutorial” that is actually a “bad implementation with quick, sloppy code” in disguise and start curating what is already on the Web. We can then concentrate on the next level tutorials. I think Web-based education will be a big thing in the near future, and creating a new generation of Web makers206 should be on all of our agendas. We do this with tools, great documentation and frameworks, and not with a “write this, it is awesome” approach. ❧
205. http://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/4586670229/ 206. https://commonspace.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/generation-of-web-makers/
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