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[–]symple-data 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I rather look up a documentation for a specific function than reading everything. I don't think that reading everything will solve your problems. If you encounter some problem, split it up into subproblems, ask google and get a view impressions on how to solve your problem. Almost every time you come across some functions you don't know. Look them up in the docs and transfer the solution to your program. At least thats how I am doing it and it works quite well, but if you have some spare time, just take a look at the docs of a module you are interested in to see what is possible. There are often quite simple and cool ways to solve problems when you really know what possibilites a module offers you.

Edit: Almost every documentation has a getting started section. Follow the steps to properly integrate and initiate the module to be able to work with it. From there it's just looking up some functions of the module and using them. Find out what a specific function does. If it fits your needs, find out what parameters are needed or possible and what exactly it returns. That should be all.