 more importantly, teaches you how to teach yourself and find out how to go about solving a problem or building a solution.
Tools come and go, so the goal is to teach things of value with less focus on the programming language and other tools used to build the software.
I have been programming since 2007, focusing on teaching myself best practices. Along the way I have found a lot of good and bad tutorials on the right and wrong way to build things and I want to help others avoid getting stuck like I did.</