What is your preferred method of learning a new language, framework, library, etc.?
- Do you try to grok the docs?
- Do you watch videos or read articles?
- Do you try to migrate an existing project using the new things you're trying to learn?
- Do you follow along with examples/tutorials?
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Definitely a bit of everything. I find that as long as writing code and not copying and pasting, as well as doing a bit more than a tutorial tells me to I learn a lot more.
Making CRUD apps or tic tac toe games or whatever also helps to begin with. I think setting stepwise goals works really well, and it helps me feel that learning the entire language/framework/etc is in reach.
For me it's more about the mindset and actual act of coding as opposed to specific mediums.
I think it's a combination of everything. If I'm all in on something, I immerse myself with a combination of mediums. Some is passive learning, like a conference talk or a podcast giving high level ideas behind the tech, and some is active learning where I'm following along a tutorial or something like that.