I stopped at the slide that said:

"I once saw a program that was a WHOLE PAGE LONG that made an object follow the cursor. I did the same thing with ONE LINE OF CODE! And it was faster."

Move along, nothing to see here...

It's true. Haha. The program was about 5 lines, but the sequence was one line.

Whole page in 12pt font.

Okay.

There's a phenomena that we've seen a great deal of over the years. People learn a tiny bit about our subject, then decide that they want to educate people who know slightly less than them. So they write very bad tutorials. Yours is an example of this.

Any fool can write a vague, generalised description of the concepts of what are involved in writing a computer program. This is not the same as a tutorial that helps beginners to actually write a program. That requires a very thorough understanding of the subject.

Most of those of us that have been involved in online forums such as this one for a number of years have spent an enormous amount of time dealing with people who have learned nonsense from bad tutorials and our advice has always been don't write a tutorial unless a) it hasn't already been written and b) you have a very thorough understanding of the subject matter.

Your "tutorial" is a confused and patronizing way for you to shout "Look how clever I am" to a bunch of people who are entirely underqualified to judge the value of the material they are reading. Please stop acting like you are some kind of programming messiah, come unto deliver code wisdom to the masses, and go actually learn the subject properly.

If this seems harsh, it is based on a wider observation than this thread alone. My patience is out.

I am far from a "programming messiah" as you say. It was merely introducing people who may not know anything about programming to what programming involves. The intent, as the title implies, is to help them understand programming, not to teach them how to program, or how to do it effectively.

As I acknowledged, I am indeed a beginner myself. And if I can help someone to understand, even at my level, then that is good.

I posted this post to get feedback AND help, on how I can improve it (being a beginner) and I thank those who gave useful feedback.

The purpose of the book is to elaborate and actually teach beginning programming, whereas the purpose of that guide was to try to help people understand programming in general.

Please stop acting like you are some kind of programming messiah, come unto deliver code wisdom to the masses, and go actually learn the subject properly.

If this seems harsh, it is based on a wider observation than this thread alone. My patience is out.