Escaping Tutorial Hell #programming #coding #lowcode

👩‍💻 Stop tutorial hell & start coding projects! 🚀 #Cplusplus #CodingTips #OperatorOverloading #MatrixMultiplication #CodeTricks

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[nirfohm]

Feels like "tutorial hell" is because people just overthink something like "why I should build X when X program already exists and is well-optimized" or "If I build X with this Y technology, can I get a job at Z company?" so they just get stuck learning shiny new fotm frameworks mentioned in the job requirements or by tech youtubers

[scoutchorton]

I’ve been self teaching for 10 years strong and this is the way I’ve learned. Project after project after project. Hardly any of them were finished, but it made me a career and persists me into my career. Always have fun with it, never stop learning, and you’re set for a rewarding life/hobby/career

[just_ugu]

For me, competitive programing problems are a good way to start getting out of tutorial hell, it's middle ground between tutorials and a complex project

[apalsnerg]

The uni course I'm taking does a really good job at this. First, they give us reading material that will be relevant to the assignment for this week. Then, they show us the process of solving a similar, but simpler problem. Then, they tell us "Make a program/website that fulfills these requirements", and off you go. It's a great mix of teaching us and letting us educate ourselves. Each week is a more complicated assignment that usually builds upon or makes use of what we learnt in the previous assignment.

[xiongbenjamin]

This is so true. My mistake was going to 3 bootcamps and $60, 000 later, I wasn’t learning anything nor was I competent. Until I built a project that was meaningful to me from scratch. That’s when everything started to click. Don’t go to a bootcamp. Learn the fundamentals for free and build. Don’t waste $60k like I did.

[siphillis]

My technique is to watch a solid video tutorial at 1.5x speed, don't take notes, and just get a feel for the syntax of a language and its capabilities. Then I code up whatever project aligns with those traits.

[akuoko_konadu]

My take is first learn how to do something by a tutorial, then do something on your own.

Sometimes as a beginner you need a tutorial to know where to start from

[C.S.Argudo]

I decided to make a game and lemme tell you... its not going well

[hamzakhiar]

Now, what we struggle with is to pick a project, the picker dilemma where you being frozen on what project you have to pick and start overthinkg

[michaelovadiyah]

I’m doing a tutorial now and out of all the tutorials that I’ve done, this is the best. It doesn’t show you code snippets, it shows you how to build complete systems on different levels so you have an understanding of how different things can be built and what it takes to build them.

[techactivate]

Hey man, thanks for the tip. I've been trying to learn C but was mainly using tutorials. I tried what you said, and it helped a lot, thanks again.

[daze]

That doesn't mean you should avoid tutorials. I cannot tell you how many times I spent an obscene amount of time crafting up a solution only to find that it's shit and would have taken me 10 minutes to learn from some random video

[bronwaith]

Yes exactly like this! This is how I learned Lua and now how I’m learning E. =]

[kodiererg]

You need both. A project will teach you what you need for that project. A book, class, comprehensive tutorial will teach you how the language and syntax works exlusive of a project. They're complimentary.

[javabeanz]

I think that tutorials are great for learning a topic. It takes many of them, turned into a course, to understand a language basics. But building something is how you become proficient at a language. And learning how to use documentation is how you discover useful language features.

[skippydinggledank]

Its so true i was in tutorial hell for a while but one day i just stopped idk what flipped but now i enjoy learning coding concepts and tricks instead of how to make a project

[mlDaViA]

As a c# learner i can a 💯 % relate to that.

[minim]

I learned the concept on different languages and implement it on my own way on different language by doing that I trick my brain to focus on the concept of solution. By doing this I learn pors and cons of language too.

[RudderBoo]

I’ve self taught my self around 3-4 languages this way and it’s just the best way to learn. You also learn the general packages that are commonly used with said languages.

[simonezuccarello]

After I learn a new language I use to make a program that does Prime Factorization, Least Common Multiple, and Greatest Common Divisor of multiple numbers. It's a great way to learn how arrays works in that language and how to manage memory.
After some time I go back and try to optimize it.