> In the terminal, ajkl;gawgor;iqeg;iJLkqen. wl;R aw;oeiga 4648664 arjarwgj;llj;ja fadgfgajkljl; wlj;sdjk;lfas

Open, copy and paste, press enter

> Next go to folder/hidden/deep/in/the/file/system/surprise!.file and copy the contents of the file.

Also a primitive file operation via copy and paste of the path and file content, not even requiring 1 google search to find out how to show hidden files a complete novice would need

> Next go to folder/hidden/deep/in/the/file/system/surprise!.file and copy the contents of the file.

Same primitive copy and paste operation

> The first 3 steps will take me approximately 7 hours and 193 internet searches to complete.

Everything is possible and this isn't literal, but still that's just nonsense unless you come up with a plausible scenario where the challenge isn't copy and paste operations with no cognitive overhead

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ezfe 5 days ago | parent [-]

good job, you missed the point

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eviks 5 days ago | parent [-]

Great job, you've failed to document the point.

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ezfe 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Regardless of the level a tutorial is given at, there is information that is missing. A well written tutorial knows its audience and contains all the information for that audience.

Sure, I will grant that someone who doesn't know what a computer is shouldn't be expected to follow a tutorial to install PostgreSQL on a headless linux server with proper security protocols in place.

The issue is more that it's extremely easy to assume someone understands what "primitive file operations" are necessary to accomplish a goal, and fail to describe what it is the user actually has to do.

Just because you understand how to navigate a file structure doesn't necessarily mean you have the domain knowledge necessary to make leaps that are frequently present in tutorials.

	▲	eviks 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> there is information that is missing. What information was missing? > and fail to describe what it is the user actually has to do. How is "go to a folder and copy file content" is not such a description? > doesn't necessarily mean you have the domain knowledge necessary to make leaps that are frequently present in tutorials. Again, rather than speaking generically, how does this post demonstrate it? What leap is present in "this tutorial" that an average reader would not have the knowledge to make?

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NetMageSCW 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You’ve assume your beginner knows that In the Terminal meand open the Terminal application, knows how to open the Terminal, knows that the Terminal uses typed commands, knows that typed commands are followed by Enter, and knows that the text following Terminal are the typed commands to be entered.

	▲	eviks 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		The non-garbling threw me off (it wasn't jabbernocks), so assumed some passing familiarity. But even granting that, you can add a few minutes and a few google searches to your complexity budget.