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>> People are often intimidated by the official docs and hesitant to go there.

Someone interested in "leveling up" their DevOps career is intimidated by official documentation... and more comfortable with github?

Seems like a stretch to me.

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GitHub has become weirdly mainstream in the last few years. Almost all college students have some exposure even from non-CS courses. And yeah I know it's strange, but official docs just don't do it for some people.

I suspect you are like me and prefer to just read the docs and learn on your own. But there's a huge percentage of people that don't learn that way and need more hand holding at first. There's a reason that Youtube videos are so popular for learning technical subjects. I would never watch a video to learn anything technical myself yet millions of people prefer it over reading.

What I'm doing is based on experience of what works to get more people started and interested. Not everyone is an OG hacker who's been programming since they were twelve. If you are that type like I am, this is not for you as you can learn it faster on your own than you can read the tutorial. This is for those who are less experienced and might be intimidated getting going.

There is a whole industry geared to those who "might be intimidated getting going". This often leads to being stuck in 'tutorial hell', where one never has to feel intimidated and never lets go of their instructors hand. Slippery slope in my opinion.

They might be in the wrong career if they don't want to read official documentation.

I used to think the same, but in many cases nobody taught them how to read the docs. Once they get more familiar with the concepts they are able to dig in and be more independent.

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