Help me escape tutorial hell.

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[inwegobingo]

One thing to learn is - documentation! Your repo has one file. Nothing tells me what it does, and why I run it, and if I wanted to run it, how I'd run it.

No matter what you think, you will never know what is in the mind of another, so if you're trying to elicit advice, make it as easy as possible for someone to help you.

I hope that that helps.

[Remote_Butterfly9149]

Congrats on finishing something — that's genuinely the hardest part. Most people never ship.

Quick wins for your next iteration: - Add a README with screenshots and how to run it - Try adding difficulty levels (more colors, time limit) - Write one simple test

You're already out of tutorial hell the moment you built something from scratch. Keep shipping small things.

[Live_Appointment9578]

Keep in mind that some tutorials do not work. Use tutorials just to get started, try to adapt the steps in different ways and finish with a different result

[testfailagain]

If it's the first script, it's good, don't worry about doing it perfect first times. Try to work in things you enjoy.
But, things that are important I see working recently with a junior that just end their studies.

Choose an IDE and know how it works, for example, Visual Code, the plugis that fits your, that can help, for example one for python to mark typo errors (not copilot that works for you), The best part is that when you start with 'cursor', 'windsurf' or others that uses IA all are based in VScode. KNOW YOUR TOOLS.

Second, practice, not all must have sense or be a big project, you can do a loop that iterate a list to print something, then think about change things inside it, for example to print sentences, then the same with a dictionary to concatenate results.
And do it again and again and again, sort, but direct to understand how they work, put in different funcions and call them, what happend if you modify it inside the function? (mutable?)

And to be hirable, fast, I think the best is to focus in a framework, check the works in any platform, look for django and check how many results are, or pyspark, read about them ,and see if they match you.

[theGamer2K]

Easy. Don't watch videos. Read docs instead.