I absolutely agree, education of developers is crucial for developing a community around a platform like this.

I question whether we are at the proper place to really do that yet though. Everything right now is incredibly immature (no offense to anyone working in this space) and things are changing faster than guides and tutorials can be written. Hell, some of us are talking to each other for the very first times. If I would have written a guide about the APIs used behind Steem last week, they'd already need the addition of at least 4 new sections.

I believe most of what you see being built today is the infrastructure and prototypes for what will someday be the toolkit for new developers. We don't have our jQuery, WordPress, or Bootstrap yet. They're being built though, by a lot of the developers you see posting about new things.

As it stands right now, only the bravest (insane-st?) of developers dares venture into this ever shifting codebase. Someday (and hopefully soon) we will hit a more stable period, can all take a collective breathe, then write some damn documentation and guides on getting involved.

But for now, it's go time. Competition I'm sure will be fierce over the coming weeks/months, and the lead that Steem has taken needs to be pushed even further before the competitors start coming online.

Great comment, great thoughts, and I wish everyone wrote things with as much thought as you have. I'll end my mini-rant on that note :)