Would you be interested in a video series, ebook, textbook, etc., that teaches you programming by walking through examples of actual useful programs, instead of just basic "Hello, World!" type programs?

So for example, I googled searched for "Compute science 1 exercises" and found this: https://chortle.ccsu.edu/Java5/Notes/chap08/progExercises08.html . The exercises there are basically "compile and run this and see what happens." That's not a useful program. What I mean by a "useful" program is something like "write a program that moves every file in your MyDocuments folder that is more than 30 days old to a folder called MyDocumentArchives". It's not a super exciting program, but it is at least useful.

As the series progresses the examples would be less trivial and would solve more difficult, real-world problems.

This is something I am thinking about putting together for a friend at work who wants me to teach him how to code, so I was wondering if anyone else would find it useful.

definitely

yes i agree useful!

Great idea

This sounds interesting, how do you plan to make it happen?

What I'm thinking right now is to come with an idea of what kind of program we can make. Then do something like:

part 1: Making the basic control structures
part 2: Adding functions
part 3: Saving to a file
etc.

So it would be one program and over the course of like 8-10 videos I would just make improvements to it with more advanced programming concepts.