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This isn't a "learn how to be a programmer" tutorial. This is a "look how easy Meteor makes getting something simple built and deployed".

So instead of the theory of relativity, how about using a calculator to do your taxes.

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Fair enough. But this is still not teaching me much about actually writing an app in Meteor. It tells me to type the code in, not how it works or what it all means.

To use the calculator metaphor it would like saying: "enter 75345 + 3455 / 4, there's your taxes!"

I see. For me, a beginner programmer, this type of thing is really helpful in explaining what you can do with the language/framework and what the structure of build/deploy looks like.

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