WordPress starts WordPress.tv.
On WordPress.tv, you’ll find tutorials for both WordPress self-installs and WordPress.com to help you get blogging fast and hassle-free. We’ve kicked things off with the basics — now you can shape what comes next. Just drop us a line and let us know what you’d like to see added. (Source: WordPress blog)
This is like screencast to how to use the WordPress blogging platform. I think it’s great for new users when WordPress features aren’t entirely obvious.
The general problem about tutorials is that they create things that are quick and hardly uses best practices. The most popular tutorial topic is perhaps the 20 minute blog screencasts. It’s a great way to introduce the features of the web framework but it actually is filled with so many bad practices. Many beginners leave the blog tutorial satisfied, forgetting issues like validation, security and so on.
Should beginners be completely unaware of these issues when they start? With ignorance, it’s easy to attract to would-be developers but they probably wouldn’t stay for long and it gets really discouraging at some point.
I love the 20 minute how to create your own blog screencasts by the way. My point is that it just is not for absolute beginners in programming.