add a note to the README about this being a tutorial for an ancient version of Rust

[rust-101.git] / README.md

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 This documents Rust-101, a tutorial for the [Rust
 language](http://www.rust-lang.org/).
 
+**Note that this tutorial was written for Rust 1.3 in 2015, and the language evolved a lot since then.
+Some of the idioms presented here may no longer reflect current practice.**
+
 ## Online tutorial
 
 The most accessible form of the tutorial is its
@@ -11,8 +14,8 @@ The most accessible form of the tutorial is its
 ## Offline Usage
 
 You can either read through the sources in `src/`, or generate the
-HTML in `docs/` using `make docs` (this step needs
-[Pycco](https://fitzgen.github.io/pycco/)).
+HTML in `docs/` using `make docs`. This steps assumes `pipx install pycco` has
+been run before; it will use the pipx-created venv to import pycco.
 
 The files `workspace/src/part*.rs` are generated by `make workspace`.