I've spent the last few months building and maintaining my own projects instead of constantly jumping between tutorials.
It has been frustrating sometimes. I've had bugs that took hours to understand, deployments that broke, features that I later had to rewrite, and projects that nobody used.
But I've also learned things that I don't think I would have learned by simply completing tutorials.
So I'm curious:
For someone learning development, what do you think is more valuable — building projects or following structured courses?
Top comments (5)
I used to learn from YouTube videos
But are that time I didn't have a goal to build something
That habit or the interest was light up by Flask (python)
In that I first interacted with frontend backend and db
And that project was messagegpt
It was a simple ai chatbot only which used Gemini api
The screen is bleeding to spellings might be wrong
Yes exactly that flow
But I stopped maintaining it as I can’t see more scope for that , I also added a ai website builder and publisher, mind map generator the ai site builder takes user prompt and gives just the html and i render that in my site and add a publish btn when its clicked a dialog box opens asking for the site name
I hosted them on netlify by using their api
That was cool but the design not