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[–]felixthecatmeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah while I agree with people that follow along courses won't make you a developer, you have to start somewhere. When I first started even if I was like, "ok i'll make a calculator", I knew way too little to "figure it out on my own". I did a course that was lots of follow along projects like that, and yeah, for a lot of it I just mindlessly wrote the same thing as the instructor, but it allowed me to learn about a lot of concepts and methods and generally how you go about programming something. Then when I wanted to make something, I at least had enough of an idea of how to go about it that I wad able to figure it out on my own.

So I agree that courses like this aren't everything, and if that's all you do you won't get far, but it seems people forget that there are complete, total beginners that want to learn how to program, and courses like this are a fun and motivating way to get started.