"Getting Out of Tutorial Hell: What I Did Differently as a Coding Beginner"

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`# Getting Out of Tutorial Hell: What I Did Differently as a Coding Beginner

Description: "As a beginner, I kept watching tutorials but wasn’t building anything. Here's how I finally broke out of 'tutorial hell' and started learning for real."
tags: beginners, learning, coding, webdev, motivation
Hey everyone 👋

I’m Abinash, a coding fresher learning how to build real-world projects and trying to actually understand what I’m doing.

But not long ago, I was stuck in something many beginners face:

“Tutorial Hell” — where you keep watching videos but feel like you’re not learning anything for real.

🧠 What is Tutorial Hell?

If you’re there, you know the feeling:

You’ve watched 5+ full courses
You can follow along… but only when the instructor does it
You panic when you start a blank project
You keep saying, “Just one more tutorial and then I’ll build something…”

It feels like you’re learning, but you're not applying what you’ve learned.

😩 My Breaking Point

I realized I had watched over 20 hours of tutorials but still couldn’t build a simple project from scratch.

That hit me hard.

So I decided to stop “tutorial binging” and change how I learn.

🔄 What I Did Differently

1. 📵 Closed YouTube, Opened VS Code

I picked a very small project idea (a to-do list) and forced myself to build it without watching a tutorial. When I got stuck, I Googled, read docs, and struggled a bit — but I actually learned.

2. 🧩 Broke Projects Into Tiny Tasks

Instead of saying “Build a weather app,” I broke it into:

Learn how to get user input
Figure out how to use an API
Display the data

That made things way less overwhelming.

3. 🧪 Started "Learn by Doing"

For every concept I learned, I asked:

“Can I build something simple with this right now?”

If the answer was yes, I did it — no matter how small it was.

✅ Results So Far

Now, I’ve built:

A working to-do list (with localStorage!)
A simple weather app using an API
My personal portfolio site (still improving!)

Are they perfect? No.

Did I learn more from these than 10 tutorials? Absolutely.

💬 What About You?

👉 Are you stuck in tutorial hell right now?

👉 What helped you start building things on your own?

👉 Have any simple project ideas you’d recommend for beginners?`