r/learnprogramming • u/goonballs6767 • 1d ago

stuck at tutorial hell

im learning js its been couple months and im stuck at tutorial hell, ive been hoping here and there tutorial to tutorial, i havent learnt much, and i also dont have any project ideas to start making them most of them are far from where i am rn, help.

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy 1d ago

Are you just going through the motions in each tutorial, or are you taking time to analyze it line by line in order to understand what it is doing and why you need it to do what it is doing?

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u/KeenlyWorldly 1d ago

tutorials are like paint by numbers you finish a pretty picture but never learn why the colors go where they go

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u/N546RV 1d ago

You need to start doing things without the hand-holding of tutorials. Take one of those tutorials you’ve finished, and start changing things. Add some new feature, make something behave a little differently. Hell, just go change random stuff and see what happens.

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u/TJATAW 1d ago

This.

Doing stuff all on your own is how you really start learning to build stuff.

Plus a big chunk of what I do is get told "Hey, we'd like to add in..." on some script I've never seen before, so it is really like training for your future job.

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u/Icemourne_ 22h ago edited 22h ago

My first project was actually really hard and that helped me to learn and I have rewritten entire code base for that project multiple times have even switch parts of it from JS to Go and from vanilla js to react then to svelte

I did get users from basically day 1 and that helped me to keep working on it what I'm trying to say if you have motivation to work on project everything else will go smoothly

Don't hesitate and make something you will learn more by doing it I personally have spent maybe 2-3h on tutorials half of that was looking up how to center div

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u/MikeIsBoi 8h ago

I personally don't watch tutorials at all. I buy books about specific topics I am interested in and then try to brainstorm a project that applies the theory written in the book. You will learn more since that stuff in the books are just generic examples, you need to transform them to fit your problem at hand. And that how you learn.

Don't be afraid of tackling harder projects as well. I personally like reading programming books in my free time.

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u/betarage 6h ago

At least with js and html its easier to do more basic things compared to many other languages. but i cant really read your mind but just try to make a simple browser game or web page about stuff you like .

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u/No-Humor-3808 1h ago

Practice small concepts one at a time once you've understood them and usually solving katas is a great way to reinforce what you've learned. I have a collection of them here: https://www.reactchallenges.com/katas

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u/Whatever801 1d ago

Make me a chrome extension I can use to take notes and jot down todos

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u/megaman12321 1d ago

Make something. Literally anything. Something you think might work cause you saw a tutorial but you forgot the details? Go back to it and then adapt it into your code. See how it works, figure it out.

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u/iamirzhan 1d ago

just, don't rush. Understand what you want to learn and use tutorials to help you, don't make it a goal itself.