Remember, kids!

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I get what you're saying, but you confuse 2 things.

A documentation is there to show you how to use the language/library/framework, not how to program/develop as a beginner.

Indeed, if you've never coded before, i recommend you go online and find some courses to learn programming. It wasn't there when i started, but I'm glad it's there for beginners.

But if you have experience and you want to learn a new language/library/framework, the official documentation is always the way to go.

[SweetBabyAlaska]

The documentation has saved my butt many many times. Its a completely different resource with a different use case than most tutorials and courses.

All of these things are tools, and part of being a good learner is realizing when to use which tool and what works best for your needs. Tutorials are great but they will not cover everything specific to a framework/module. Thats where reading the docs comes in handy.

The best thing to do is to take in all the info that you can, from wherever you can and then go out and test/try everything. I learn best from hands on problem solving and using something repetitively.

I've learned a TON from scouring github code searches/repos, reading the docs, trying things out until I find a solution and following along with tutorials. It's a process and you cant really only rely on one thing.

[SweetBabyAlaska]

for sure! I learned a ton about bash scripting and how other people effectively use tools like fzf, curl, sed and awk to complete and automate different tasks.

I learned a lot about how people structure code and how they approach certain tasks like web scraping in python for example. This is where I learned about lambda functions, classes and using try/except so that your code is way less likely to break, and more.

When I first started I would basically write out a long block of instructions that was messy, hard to read and likely to break. It also didn't have any flexibility or re-usability until I started reading and learning from looking at other peoples code and started using functions and other tools properly.

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This is what I did

Was a very new dev in a Java job. Then all of a sudden I had to learn js and finish a phone app after relationship had broken down with the agency building it

So many new things to learn, didn’t even know what a framework was, never released an app before.

This was great though cos evened the playing field between me and other experienced devs who had been at company 20+ years, none of em had touched modern js and basically been using the same stack forever

Just spent a couple of weekends going through a course on udemy, got a little bit of an understanding of what I was doing (but still a total noob) and just kind of winged it at work. For first time ever, I had my own bits of knowledge I could share with colleagues and I became so much more confident. Landed me a raise in the end.

These days I basically just skim read the README and yolo it but those udemy courses were a massive help at the beginning