: Re: How to know you are over-explaining and oversimplifying a subject? Recently, I started writing articles about different subjects I learn on my own (programming, logic ...etc). While writing, I

Your approach might be too fundamentalist for general use.

Try to gauge your audience. Beginners need simple, easy-to-follow steps that focus on how to, rather than why. They also need a 10,000-mile overview of the entire process, without too much granular detail.

The fundamentalist approach is not for beginners. Even though it is extremely thorough, it is more for an intermediate or advanced user who is already familiar with the 10,000 mile view and needs to know more about the details and the whys (the "fundamentals").

Beginner audiences receive less information over a broader view, fundamental audiences get granular detail about a narrower topic (or sub-topic).

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