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by Zhyl 3179 days ago
While I agree with this to an extent, I really feel that adopting any new tech/tool/language needs at least some motivation.

To that ends, I think the best programming tutorial for the absolute-stone-cold "what even is computer code" is 'Automate the Boring stuff' [1] as it gives clear examples of where a computer doing something is better than manually doing something. The best vim 'motivator' is this stack overflow post [2].

[1] http://automatetheboringstuff.com

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos...