Coding Tutorials Don't Work (and what to do about it)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Coding tutorials don't teach you how to code. To get better at coding you need to solve problems, and watching tutorials is nothing more than watching someone else solve problems for you.
If you are interested in learning to code, or becoming a software developer, you need to make sure that you're utilizing tutorials in the correct way.
My advice for following tutorials are:
Have a single concept in mind that you want to learn and implement into your own project
Use a variety of instructors
Make sure your coding on your own too
This is genuinely good advice. I'd like to add that tutorials in which others solve problems (like the typical "make a facebook/twitter clone" stuff) can be incredible for finding inspiration. Sometimes we are just hitting our head against a brick wall, and watching someone else do it "their way" can be enlightening. I usually consume more of these type of tutorials for implementing video game mechanics in games or when styling webpages with css, for example.
Anyways, this is a great video. I like how it goes straight to the point and offers such valuable information. Keep it up!
Thank you for the kind words! And that's an excellent point that I didn't really consider in this video!
you just described my learning journey ,all the support to you .
Thank you! I think it's a super common trap that people fall into, and it isn't until they are on the other side of it until they realize what went wrong
Does anyone here disagree? Would love to hear from people who used tutorials as the primary tool to learn how to code.
I don't actually disagree but I have to say that I love tutorials and it's not that straightforward. I wouldn't be able to learn all those things by myself so I'm grateful for all the great teachers that have helped me. I wouldn't recommend tutorials for anyone who is trying to learn simply by copying, because following them doesn't teach problemsolving. But I like tutorials, and I want to get the basics with tutorials. Also when I follow a good tutorial I can get hints of how programmers think. Once I Iearn the basics, I always apply them in my own projects. That's the best and most efficient way to learn for me. There are many bad tutorials so you should pick ones that really flame your passion for coding. I followed some tutorials from The Net Ninja and he actually had the most interesting exercises of the bunch in my opinion, so I learned a lot following those and I took a lot of ideas for my own projects. Also my advice is not to do too many easy exercises. Aim higher. Once you know something, you need to pick a project that uses all of your knowledge and then some. But if you don't know the basics yet, it's not that bad to take it slow and practice repeatedly until you really learn it.
im really glad youtube recommended this video to me.