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There's Simple English Wikipedia which uses basic English words and shorter sentences and tries to limit jargon use.
Random example:
When I was in middle school, my brother brought me a set of 3 workbooks about Boolean algebra from the high school library. I can’t remember the title or much of anything else about them, but I went through them and did all the exercises, working until I completely understood every lesson. That basic foundation set me up to easily understand programming, SQL queries, and so many other computer-related things. It kinda defined my entire career. That was in 1978 or so, so it’s been awhile! I retired last year, a bit early, after a fairly successful career as a developer and DBA.
Often the best explanations on things like electronics are in old unclassified training films you may find on archive.org and YouTube. Those have been pretty useful.
I never got the hang of languages, until I got classes on how to build compilers.
Khan academy for math, absolutely. Never would have gotten my AA without it.
