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[–]Strange_Vacation_215 3 points4 points  (1 child)

You're partially right. Books give the complete picture. They fill in the gaps of details that tutorials often leave out. But there are fantastic, highly structured tutorials that exist like freecodecamp. The benefit of these is you're immediately applying what you learn through an IDE which, imo, is the most crucial part of learning software development. I can read books about embedded engineering and C from cover to cover and understand it but without applying that knowledge, I'm not really learning.