alt Hacker NewsFunny to think how useful help files and manuals used to be! I learned QBasic mostly from the builtin help system, VBasic mostly from clicking around, and even DirectX from the help files and tutorials. Nowadays documentation is outsourced to the community it seems, for the most part.
Yeah, VB4 had tutorials on how to make simple apps, and that's how I learned to program! I can't believe I learned about loops and variables and control flow structures by just reading the documentation.