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Discussion on: The DRUG of online tutorials

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Douglas Parsons

I agree with you here. Tutorials themselves aren't useless. Like you've said, they definitely lower the barrier to entry and provide valuable resources.

It's absolutely the 'instant success' or image that you can 'learn everything in one place' that is really the damaging thing. Even hands-on following a tutorial you're unlikely to experience the same problems, or getting stuck, like you normally would.

Nothing replaces the actual practice and experience of writing code and hitting issues head-on.