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Discussion on: How to not get stuck in tutorial hell?

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Kaushal Joshi • 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:

  1. Pick a sufficiently medium/large project tutorial on YouTube/etc.
  2. Make sure it includes all the major concepts of the technology you have been learning.
  3. Watch one section of the video, write down what you need to do and how you could do it (in plain text)
  4. Build the small part.
  5. Validate your code.
  6. 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
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Farhaan Patel

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

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Kaushal Joshi

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 :)