The BEST way to learn code!? (Tier List)👩‍💻 #code #programming #technology #software #tech #dev

[Mike]

Teachers from India have saved the day for many of us I bet 😂

[Conqueror]

Lewis: *mentions India*
Y'all know what happens next

[JustPyroYT]

If the tutorial is from an indian guy, its good.

[brhh]

After learning the language, learning from the tech's documentation directly is the single best thing you could do because everything about the tech is included in a simple and documented way

[pingwinek_]

If the mentor is your dad, it's S tier.

[thatone]

As an Indian myself, i can confirm we have great teachers who simplify stuff for us
Like i started doing basic C++ and assembly language codes within 3 weeks

[fidenhan]

Chatgpt is straight S tier, especially the paid version Chatgpt 4 which give you the possibility to add plug-ins like "Show me", allow you to build a diagram of concepts and keywords.

Instead of asking to solve random problems and copy paste the solution. Ask it the build you a roadmap to be a better programmer and ask it to explain you for each step, each concept, each keyword. Also ask it to link you the best seller book to read for the concept you need to improve.

[owieOne]

At my college I study something called innovative development. It’s basically software engineering, but without lectures and tests. Instead, you and a group work on a project for a real company for the entire semester. Your project group can exist out of students from all years, so you can learn from those with more experience. If they can’t figure something out you can always find a professors to ask.

[lightning_]

The way I use AI is to ask it to explain something I almost understand, then I read its examples and write my code myself. The nice thing is that since I almost understand it, if the AI gets it wrong I'll notice.

[tuureluotonen]

Sometimes ai helps. I had a script that was supposed to ask a yes/no question, then give a response depending on your answer. It would also print an error if the response wasn't Y/N.

response = input("Yes or no? Y/N: ")
if response == "Y":
print("Yes")
elif response == "N":
print("No")
else:
print("Error")

[Choroalp]

Learning basics using AI is actually pretty good. This is how i learned most of the Go

[FirstLast-gklg]

Great list 100% agree. I advise only using GPT for explaining algorithms with a step by step breakdown if you are having trouble understanding what is happening at each iteration of the logic

[Vachan_notavailable]

As a fellow Indian I can agree that’s how I learned to code

[AcJ]

Idk why but Indian lecturers are on a whole other level

[mynamesaretakenwtf]

Project is absolutely the best way. I was in tutorial hell for years. Got an idea of what terms were, without real world use cases. Then I had a personally beneficial project I came up with, and over the last 8 months, I’ve been learning and using way more than I did in the last few years. I have a few things to check off before I put it out there, but the bits that I have done became a near daily tool in my toolbox that saves hours and makes my work more consistent.

Find a project, lean into it. Most importantly, just write at the beginning. Make it work, then optimize later down the road. Trust me, you will know where to the make the optimizations as you work and do more complex things. You can bring in tools that you learned later on to optimize.

[k_gold]

Discovering new stuff through videos and using a combination of tutorials and LLMs is the way to go.

[reillyspitzfaden]

Books go into S tier for me. I love being able to get all the information I might otherwise get from tutorials in one place, as well as being able to speed up and slow down or repeat passages as necessary. Plus reading is faster than listening to someone talk.

[carcedopro]

The "open source" and "building what you want" kinda bound together, cause each one of them leads you to another

[xsamueljr]

AI underrated. I just learned how to make unit tests in Python only with ChatGPT. Will I be missing points that I will learn when I do tests for real? Surely. Do I have a good foundation for it? Definitely yes

[luihsuan]

It depends on how you leverage the AI tools