Discussion on "Stop Doing Coding Tutorials"

Ákos Kőműves · 2022-04-11T18:50:18.869Z

⚠️ Disclaimer I don’t want to gatekeep and tell you what tutorials are worth reading. In fact, I welcome all and every kind of tutorial, keep writing them! This post is for those who are reading them and feel they’re not progressing. ⚠️ About a year ...

I built this while learning django: Anonime

I agree completely... Learning the fundamentals & taking the tutorial from docs (most docs do build a project in their docs to help beginners get started) is the approach I'm currently using in my learning process. And when I'm stuck I find solutions from google or YouTube so most times I find the solution to my queries in a video that is part of a tutorial. So instead of watching the whole tutorial, I will watch just that part and implement the feature or solve my errors. That's why I like YouTubers that create their tutorial in series instead of a single video without timestamp.

I find the solution to my queries in a video that is part of a tutorial

That's interesting, never looked for solutions in YouTube videos, but I guess having proper timestamps helps here a lot.

Well said, Ákos! I guess learning basics is enough after that good to go with building and figure out by itself.

Thank you, Ayush! When I started coding there weren't nearly as many basic coding tutorials - and tutorial hell wasn't a thing.

I feel that taking a ton of these basic tutorials is partially responsible for the existence of tutorial hell.

Building anything gives you a lot more.

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