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Discussion on: Stop Doing Coding Tutorials

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Ondrej • Edited

100% agreed. Coding by doing tutorials leads nowhere. One has to use his own logic and set up his own goals. I understand the fact that tutors could be handy for beginners but the best way is to really think about architecture and logic of your app, read the documentation, have a slow progress, learn stuff the hard way but it's only way that really matters.

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Ondrej

But - to be clear - just watch the tutorial. Just to see how it works. But then deploy your own app using your own logic. I didn't want to say that tutorials are useless, but it's only first step. They can show you how things work, but the rest is up to you.

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Aaron

It may depend on what your goal is: to make something or to make something that is of technical superiour quality.

I personally feel that reading the documentation is inefficient and I only do it if I need to do so. Which is usually when something isn't working as expected. In documentation, I usually skip immediatly to the code examples.