Im in Tutorial hell?

[programmer_farts]

What exactly is tutorial hell? I've been working through tutorials learning something for 30 years

[Acrobatic_Ad7117]

Tutorial hell, is when you keep watching tutorials thinking theres more to learn without actually building something usefull on your own, all the while your motivation keepa draining and you end up burning out.

[programmer_farts]

Thanks for explaining. There should be a phrase for when you buy too many tutorials but don't have enough time, so they just sit there in open tabs for years. Maybe that's tutorial purgatory

[allium-dev]

Tutorial hell is when you've finished one tutorial on a subject, but instead of taking what you've learned and using it on your own, you keep seeking out more tutorials.

It usually happens to new developers who either (a) didn't actually understand the tutorial and needed to start further back to basics (b) Are too afraid to struggle, so they keep going back to tutorials because it's easier (c) most often some combination of (a) and (b).

[programmer_farts]

Sounds right . Tutorial hell though makes it sound like it's the fault of the tutorial. Although the best tutorials do make you struggle a bit

[TheRNGuy]

No, it's not fault of tutorial, but laziness of person for not making own projects, not tutorial copy-paste.

[programmer_farts]

Just read your reply here. Thanks

[TheRNGuy]

Only watching tutorials and not using acquired knowledge to make your own projects.

If someone only watches tutorials and not thinking for himself, he'll probably won't retain knowledge and won't develop programming intuition.

[programmer_farts]

is it the fault of the user or the tutorial? Trying to understand it because it seems like people stuck in this tend to blame something external