Tutorials

A tutorial is a lesson, that takes a student by the hand through a learning experience. A tutorial is always practical: the user does something, under the guidance of an instructor. A tutorial is designed around an encounter that the learner can make sense of, in which the instructor is responsible for the learner’s safety and success.
A driving lesson is a good example of a tutorial. The purpose of the lesson is to develop skills and confidence in the student, not to get from A to B. A software example could be: Let’s create a simple game in Python.
The user will learn through what they do - not because someone has tried to teach them.
In documentation, the special difficulty is that the instructor is condemned to be absent, and is not there to monitor the learner and correct their mistakes. The instructor must somehow find a way to be present through written instruction alone.