How to not get stuck in tutorial hell?

#javascript #webdev #beginners #tutorial

So i wanted to ask this question so I don't fall into this. How do you watch tutorials without getting stuck in tutorial hell. How you do follow projects and make sure you understand what your doing without just copying the instructor.

Top comments (8)

Jon Randy 🎖️ • May 8 '22 • Edited

Easy. Don't do/watch tutorials. Build stuff, and figure things out by yourself with the aid of documentation. You will gain a far better understanding this way.

Kaushal Joshi • May 8 '22 • Edited

Build More Projects!

The only thing which would help you to get out of the tutorial hell.
Building project could be difficult and time consuming for beginners, I can understand. Here's a trick that I follow:

Pick a sufficiently medium/large project tutorial on YouTube/etc.
Make sure it includes all the major concepts of the technology you have been learning.
Watch one section of the video, write down what you need to do and how you could do it (in plain text)
Build the small part.
Validate your code.
If everything seems normal, go to point three.

Do not copy-paste code directly. See how the other person has written it and try to do it yourself.

Open Source

Make open source contribution to various projects using the same technoogy

Misc

Participate in Hackathons
Teach to someone else
Create content around it

Farhaan Patel • May 8 '22

Thanks for the info! Is there any open source projects that you would recommend for beginners to start?

Kaushal Joshi • May 9 '22

It depends upon your areas of learning.

But I could give you one resource to explore: Eddie Jaoude

Explore his YouTube/Twitter/GitHub/Discord and you'll figure that out eventually :)

Andrew Baisden • May 8 '22

Learn new programming concepts and then practice them in your own projects. I have an article with project ideas 50 Cool Web And Mobile Project Ideas for 2022

taijidude • May 8 '22

Work on your own project and try to get it in a releasable state. That will get you out of the tutorial hell pretty quick.

Jonas Petri • May 9 '22

Figure out a project you are really interested in building, and then just build it! And every time you don’t know how to do something, just Google it!