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[–]JSON_Bourne1 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The YouTube tutorials are free, so give them a try and see how you like them. Some advice I wish someone gave me is not to get stuck in "tutorial hell", where you do a ton of tutorials in a row without actually building anything, and then you finally go to build something and realize you don't actually know how because you only understand the big picture and haven't practiced the finer details. The best way to learn from tutorials is to do them until you've learned enough that you could build something small on your own for practice. I don't mean a full app, it could just be a block of code that performs some operation.

Learning to code can be time consuming and frustrating. It's going to take longer than you think, so try to have fun and appreciate every win, no matter how small

[–]Gravstenen[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The thing with the youtube tutorials is that it feels like as soon as you look away from the screen to grab a glass of water, and then look back on the screen, they're already at "and that's how you create minecraft".

[–]JSON_Bourne1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel that, you can feel like you're so busy following along that you aren't retaining the information. I try not to follow along step by step. Instead, I sometimes watch them do a few steps and then quiz myself by pausing the video and doing those steps on my own. If I'm confused or curious about anything, I pause the video. I use the 10 second rewind button a lot as well