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Aditya Chakraborty
Aditya Chakraborty

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Importance of reading documentation

Basically we, the beginners, are too bored to read the documentations. This is normal. Because, we don't have that much patience to read the large size of documentation. So, what do we do normally? We watch tutorials one to another. But, when we learn something from one tutorial and want to do some projects from another tutorials, we feel completely empty. Sometimes, we find that what is being shown in the current tutorial is not shown in the previous tutorial. We trapped in tutorial hell.

But when we learn something by reading documentation, we have all the topics of that programming language in front of us. We don't need to memorize everything. Just follow the documentation and practice accordingly. Then no matter from which you watch the tutorial, you don't feel everything is new. It is very important to develop this habit. Because it is impossible to teach 100% for anyone. That is why, everything is stated in the documentation. If you watch tutorial by not reading documentation, you will be trapped in tutorial hell. You can't learn anything. That is why, it is very important to read documentation. If you habituated to read documentation, learning process becomes too easy. You don't need to worry then, where I can find the best tutorial, who created the best content etc. You will learn anything by reading just docs. There are two awesome websites for learning programming languages. w3schools and MDN.

These two websites are the alphabet books of the programming languages. You can write big big essay, when you learn the alphabets properly. My personal recommendation for the beginners is w3schools.

So, my suggestion to all the beginners is please habituated to learn documentation. You don't regret.

Happy Learning.

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