One thing I really struggled with as a beginner was determining which parts of a tutorial were intrinsic to the language, and which parts were arbitrary text.
As an extreme example, I can remember the first programming tutorial I did at about age 15, which was not aimed at beginners at all. It started with something like “Let’s create our first Hello World”. I thought, great, what’s that? No explanation. Straight into printing “Hello World” to the console. I can remember trying to figure out whether Hello World was some sort of special code that did something within the program. And then the tutorial ended, and I had no idea what I’d just done, or why.
As an extreme example, I can remember the first programming tutorial I did at about age 15, which was not aimed at beginners at all. It started with something like “Let’s create our first Hello World”. I thought, great, what’s that? No explanation. Straight into printing “Hello World” to the console. I can remember trying to figure out whether Hello World was some sort of special code that did something within the program. And then the tutorial ended, and I had no idea what I’d just done, or why.