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Spent 6 months learning Python from a single YouTube channel before I realized I needed actual projects
I watched 40 hours of tutorials but couldn't write a simple script to rename photos until I forced myself to build a real tool for my gardening club's member list. Has anyone else hit that wall where you know the syntax but can't make it do anything useful on your own?
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simons2811d ago
Ship something broken first, fix it later.
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the_ryan1mo ago
That "syntax but can't do anything useful" thing hit me hard with JavaScript last year. I ended up building a dumb little app to track my cat's food bowl refill schedule and that finally made things click.
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jesser791mo ago
I feel like the opposite is true for me though @the_ryan. You can know all the syntax in the world but if you can't actually ship something that works, what's the point? I swear I spent weeks learning array methods and promises in JavaScript but my first real project was a todo list that crashed every time you added a new task. The syntax was perfect according to some blog I read, but the actual app was useless. People put way too much focus on writing clean code instead of just building something that runs and gets the job done.
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