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Discussion on: How to Go From Being a Tutorial Watcher to a Developer

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Waylon Walker

Practice your craft. Tutorials are a fantastic way to level up quickly and get knowledge of new tech. To get a deeper knowledge you need to get your own mind working and trying to solve your own problems. Make a safe place to practice something new and go crazy with it, break it fix it if possible, but don't feel like it needs to work when you are done. What is important is the knowledge that you walk away with. Trying out new things for the first time in real projects can be dangerous and frustrating, because they have to work when you are done. Practice shouldn't take up much of your time, but enough to get your mind thinking about solving your problems in new ways.

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John Au-Yeung

Yes. It's pretty hard to learn programming without practice.

Most people don't understand much just from reading books.

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Waylon Walker

Books/Tutorials are great. It would probably be impossible to practice without some of those first. But the real learning starts when you put your own mind to it.

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John Au-Yeung

I agree with that.

They are a great place to start. Then it's time to get our hands dirty.