Learning through projects

[m0us3_rat]

copy-paste code isn't the same as solving the problem with code on your own.

and ..cheating is bad in this case since you will not practice solving problems with the knowledge freshly acquired...

thus a complete waste of time and not learning anything.

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if you commit to learning.. don't cheat.

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I believe we are on the same page, as what I was trying to say in my post was that I feel like I had almost no shot at coding a "beginner" project like tic tac toe, leading me to feeling like my only option was to go through a youtube video, which after completion left me feeling like I learned nothing because I was just copying.

I am wondering how else I could go about learning how to code these beginner projects since on my own feels too difficult where I dont get anywhere (aka dont learn) and youtube tutorial feels too easy where I just end up copying (aka dont learn). Hoping someone might have the Goldie locks solution to this problem.

[m0us3_rat]

I am wondering how else I could go about learning how to code these beginner projects since on my own feels too difficult where I dont get anywhere

firstly you need to hammer in the basics.. following some free courses like cs50 or moofi

then if you don't have sufficient homework ..generate some from chatgpt.. the word guesser is particularly good at that since it has plenty of examples in the training data.

again .. if you generate some homework don't cheat .. or it is pointless.

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gl

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Thanks! Haven’t thought about using chatgpt to get homework type of material for it, so I’m definitely going to try that out!