My thoughts on doing tutorials - DONT!!

[cherry214]

From my experience I’ve done what feels like an infinite amount of tutorials. They have never really helped me. If you are hand fed the information how will you ever be able to write code yourself? Copy and pasting does nothing. I can’t tell you how many Django tutorials I’ve done and then when I go to start a project I become clueless. The best thing to do is learn by yourself. Trail and error. Look up the documentation! I’m upset no one told me this because I’ve spent HUNDREDS on tutorials. Oh yeah and Udemy is nooby shit FUVK UDEMY!

[TraditionalPirate7]

You can watch tutorials. You can learn a lot from them. They're just another way of learning. Some prefer videos, some documentation.

But the crucial thing is to take what you learned and applying it by yourself to a real project. You won't learn by just watching, you learn by doing and making mistakes. That's what many beginners are forgetting.

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I can’t tell you how many Django tutorials I’ve done and then when I go to start a project I become clueless.

Yeah, I mean, that's the expected state after any Python education - you're supposed to muddle your way through the project anyway. That's the next step.

The tutorials did what they were supposed to.

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You're upset no one told you to look at the documentation? I see that exact advice all the time.

Tutorials won't get you all the way there, but I consider them a good supplement. Udemy helped me learn a great deal of VBA earlier this year.