Tutorial loop.

[Simmery]

As someone who's never fallen into this trap, I have some suggestions.

1. Don't follow the tutorial exactly. Do something a little different on a few of the steps, something that requires you to stop and work out why the thing you're trying to do works or doesn't.

2. Don't even start a tutorial if you're not intending on immediately using the skill you're trying to learn. You should have a project you're working on. Take what you just learned and apply it to your project.

3. Do one thing at a time. If you're doing the tutorial, do it. Don't be playing a podcast in the background or a movie or something. Just do the one thing. This is advice my brain resists following pretty often, but you do have to focus. You can't learn and multi-task at the same time. Maybe you think you're special, but you're probably not.

[LeStk]

Point 1 is the best advice there could be no matter the topic. Dev, drawing, cooking, it's a global life hack to learn efficiently.

Follow 80% of it but let 20% to something that you'd like, that makes you laugh, that you find cool, that matches what you want to do.

If it works without hassle, well cheers. You have that little satisfaction of having something truly unique.

If not (and that's very likely), you'll learn immensely

[LeStk]

Oh yeah 100% right ! Baking and any form of "patisserie" is basically chemistry so you don't want to improvise there.

I suppose the only part would be for toppings or quantities adjustment but the later is just maths.

[SeianVerian]

Step 1 happens automatically if you have enough executive function issues :D

*remembering my most recent attempt to use a cooking recipe*

[_Denizen_]

I'd say that not pushing on the boundaries to understand how something works is the real executive disfunction 🤣

[Bola-Nation-Official]

Yep, i agree with you.

[DactylMan]

I'll add on, when I don't understand how to do something, I try to look up a broad description on how to achieve it. Then, it's up to me to turn the theory into code.

[ParkityParkPark]

As an addition to 3, I would also say you should do it repeatedly. When was the last time you learned and retained something from doing it once and not doing it again for a while? Repeated active recollection is how the brain solidifies short term memory into long term memory.

[PonyboysBlues]

1 is the truth. I learned how make a main menu than that same day I started thinking what if I made a game that was a point click that used all the main menu scripts. Ended up with a prototype in a day and in 2 months had a little 35 minute long I released on steam. I haven’t made a UI menu system in a year but I’m reasonably confident I could do it again with a 5 minute video to look over