[kaycebasques]

Tutorial takes you from an exact point A to an exact point B. Guide is much "looser" and just describes the general steps to get something done, without making any type of guarantee of being able to take you exactly from A to B. Mostly out of acknowledgment that the real-world is messy and everyone is going to have a slightly different system. Tutorial is for people starting from scratch or who want a gentle hands-on intro to your thing, guide is for people who are doing messy integration work with existing systems. It's not a perfect delineator but it'll get you most of the way there...

[juancampa]

The way I think about it is:

  - Tutorial: learn how the system works
  - How-to: recipes for common use-cases