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Just one tip from someone experienced in tutoring/training others (non-technical skills): Be very patient.

Whatever you might think how easy something is, your view is blurred by years of experience. A beginner will take far longer than you expect him to take for any given task

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Thanks, that's a good point. It's easy to forget how much of your "Common sense" is actually years worth of experience.

PS * or her

He is almost certainly being used as a neutral pronoun in this context.

thanks for the support :)

Sorry, I was raised in a country & time were we learned that "his" refers to both genders (and GLBT). That said I enjoy reading English articles with "her", just because it beats the so called "gender mainstreaming" that ruins the documents I have to read almost daily.

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