Don't just follow for tutorials and not understand it

Please!

Many people are always looking for tutorials or guide step by step on how to create something (even me! I need guide and tutorials! Dogfood me!). But there are many type of product, some products are niche (employee scheduling, monitoring, etc) and the other are easy to find the duplicate (e-commerce, inventory management, etc).

Software engineering is hard, no doubt. At first, you'll just follow many tutorials from the internet. But as time goes, and you're started building a product, there are many things that tutorial doesn't cover.

You'll start to tackle many problems that require thinking, even building a beautiful layout, complex animation or state-of-the-art algorithm that you only had a doctoral paper as a guide.

The key point of a tutorial is to show you how to do things step by step. First time I recommend you to remember it, like how to connect database, centre a <element/>, creating carousel etc. You do it countless time, you started to realize that there are more tiny steps in just connecting database. First you need your database setup, you need to know where it placed, and what driver that will help you to connect it.

So please, I can't stress this enough! Do it many times, understand the tiny step that lies when you're doing something. There is no easy path—just stay consistent.