Used to do the same before Peter_Budo told me about the noparse tags.

You can use the noparse tags around your code block like this :-

Same situation here, can always consider teaching CS an option :D .

Well its basically how you look at it and interpret the article. For me it was more like pick up the book (any book) and read it, but do not expect any miracles out of it (as the title Learn XXX in...