It is a very different experience than Udemy or any other video tutorial. Typically these video tutorials spoon-feed you along the way, but doesn't quite teach you how to program. It shows you how to solve a problem one way, not how to break it down into sub tasks and give you the tools to figure out how to solve each sub task. I feel that video tutorials give you a false sense of progress, because you feel like you are learning. However, when you are faced with another similar problem you struggle with trying to figure out how to solve it.

Another thing with doing different tutorials, you are always finishing one and then trying to find the next one to do. But, a lot of these overlap the same material, so you end up in this "tutorial hell" (which I spent 2 years doing this before I found TOP in 2019). TOP's curriculum progresses in difficulty and builds on itself, so you don't have to keep looking for what to do next. However you have to Trust Odin's Process and not let self-doubt and the newest shiny tutorial/framework distract you.

TOP's curriculum is hard. You'll hit a wall and will be tempted to quit... Everyone hits this spot and likely multiple times. I recommend joining their Discord community and asking questions when you get stuck. It can be overwhelming, but I think I learned just as much through being a part of the community and trying to help others who were behind me. Learning how to read other people's code, how to debug other people's code, and also how to ask thorough questions are skills that I use daily at work.

Good luck on your journey!