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A guy at a coding meetup told me to stop using tutorials after month one
He said just pick a small project like a to-do list and figure it out with Google, and after 3 tries I actually built something that worked. Has anyone else hit that wall where tutorials just stop sticking?
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the_robin28d ago
Same thing happens with cooking - you can watch a hundred recipe videos but freeze up when the pan's hot. Tutorials give you a false sense of knowing, but the real learning only starts when you're actually stuck and have to figure it out yourself.
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allen.ivan28d ago
@the_robin nailed it. I spent three hours watching "perfect scrambled eggs" tutorials and then served up what looked like a science experiment gone wrong. The pan was hot, the butter was sizzling, and suddenly my brain just deleted everything I watched. Turns out you don't learn to cook by staring at a screen, you learn by scraping burnt cheese off a pan at midnight and calling it dinner. The whole "watch and learn" thing is a trap, it's like thinking you can drive a car just by watching NASCAR. Real learning is messy and stupid and mostly happens when you're hungry and the recipes are just pretty pictures.
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seth6831d agoMost Upvoted
The part about "you learn by scraping burnt cheese off a pan at midnight" really hits home. I think there's something deeper though - the reason tutorials fail us is they skip over all the tiny failures. Nobody shows you what to do when your eggs start sticking or the milk curdles. @the_robin is right that real learning starts when you're stuck, but it's not just about figuring it out. It's about building the muscle memory that only comes from messing up a dozen times before breakfast even looks edible.
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