I'm Learning FreeCAD

I've only ever used Tinkercad really, wanted to use a program that is not tied/locked/unusable without the internet, found FreeCAD and found the "Lessons" on youtube and am going through them with a few others doing the same, uploading my progress as I go along, so I have access while out and about, these are not for printing just a personal reference.

Ok right, I started these tutorials using v0.17 got as far as lesson 3 and it was beginning to feel like I was learning how to work around it, rather than with it, I mean there must obviously be ways to do it properly using the newest version but its not what's shown in THESE tutorials/lessons. There may be more suitable ones out there, but I haven't found any with an explanation of what or why there have been these changes. I just want to make stuff I can just print. without having to read screen after screen of unfinished help pages.

So then I downloaded V0.16 and it's been plain sailing since, works exactly as in the videos (no