Where are all the intermediate tutorials and deep technical guides?
Most educational resources are split between basic beginner tutorials and dry, unstructured documentation that lacks a clear learning flow. This forces intermediate learners to dig through marketing material and superficial guides instead of finding the real theory, mechanics, and deep dives they need to actually master a subject.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Reading system source code
- 2Writing custom deep-dive guides and books independently
- 3searching for academic textbooks
- 4reading graduate-level finance course materials
- 5looking into GMAT study prep materials
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I was frustrated with the lack of high-quality resources for learning WordPress aimed at intermediate developers”source ↗
“most resources fall into one of three categories: Tutorials aimed at beginners. Technical documentation with no clear opinionated structure and flow for learning. Marketing BS.”source ↗
“I'm looking for written resources about the real theory and boring math.”source ↗
“I want to learn about the numbers behind money in the real world, what markets are and how to get a sense of them in action, what a realistic and decent personal finance setup looks like, types of investments and the math and philosophy that goes into investment decisions, the calculus around different forms of loans, the mechanics of debt and interest, how credit cards and banks operate, etc, and how that relates to me as a single participant in the economy.”source ↗
Where this came up
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