Try it. Go here, have a look around for a minute or two, maybe fiddle with some code:

http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/tutorials/drawing

It really improves on the classic style in two ways:

1. It's very easy to get started. There's no setup; just click a link.

2. The connection between the code and what it does is made very clear. The picture depends on the code, and changes when you change the code. There are sliders you can adjust for each integer literal. Bam!

This is exciting stuff.

It's not a tutorial in the traditional sense of the word, so there are a lot of differences.

A better description would be sandbox.