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Discussion on: How do you get the most out of tutorials, courses, and other coding resources?

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Liz Lam

One of the problems I've had was completing tutorial/courses. I started writing notes and posting them on Instagram which I wrote about in this blog:
dev.to/grepliz/a-review-of-javascr...

Writing notes have helped make the content stick better for me. I have frequently gone back to tutorials as a reference too.

I tend to want to code along with the tutorial but sometimes I just need a quick overview. I also like coding my own side/learning projects.

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Jon Calhoun

Any ideas what makes completing hard? It sounds like you get a good start and notes are also a great idea, so I'm wondering if you lose interest or if you get to a point where you feel like you know enough to do what you set out to do so the tutorial gets the back seat.

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Liz Lam

I think it's a little bit of both. I also think it was from starting too many things at once. So I kind of a have a new rule that (unless it's for work specifically), I will only do 1 tutorial series/course at a time.

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Jon Calhoun

Makes sense, and probably a good rule to consider :)