• @[email protected]
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    227 months ago

    Programming took a lot of goes before it clicked. Having a real goal instead of just doing tutorials really helped.

    • @[email protected]
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      57 months ago

      Yeah I agree. I learned the most when I just set my mind to accomplish something. This will actually get you to do real troubleshooting as well and not just checking where you failed the tutorial.

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      37 months ago

      That’s probably why I don’t feel good at programming. I just don’t have “that project” I want to do yet so I’m stuck in tutorial hell where I can finish the tasks but tell me to go build a website and I’m lost on where to start. Odin Project at least forced me to start from scratch after a while, but it really shows just how bad my planning is to build something from the ground up.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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        27 months ago

        Tutorials are great for learning the basics, but you’ll never learn to code until you pick a project and actually code it. That’s how you learn to apply your new knowledge in a real world scenario. It also gives you experience thinking critically about solutions, searching the documents, and that sort of stuff. Do that 500 more times and you’ll be a halfway decent developer!

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        27 months ago

        The things that got me through it were Learn Python The Hard Way and having a project I was aiming to build. I was working at a jazz bar at the time and I wanted to build a membership and seating plan system for them. Needless to say it was terrible and we never got to using it but it gave me a really good goal with real-life problems to solve.