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Getting out of the tutorial hell

Learning is shaped by habits and time. If you learn to code by yourself you know that you can get addicted and stuck to learning from tutorials and when the time comes to solve a problem in your job, you think there is actually a tutorial that can solve the issue you are facing. But there is not, and even though you know that you go to YouTube, Udemy to see if your problem can be solve by watching and later implementing what you watched.

The thing is you were hired to solve problems, and problems are unique. I know there are pattern design and ways other people in the past solved issues, and I take the time here advice you to learn design patterns, but at the end of the day your problems are there for you to solve. So summarizing:

1-Start getting familiar with reading documentation. Start a project using the technology of your choice and build it using only the documentation of that particular framework or library.

2-Get a project in mind, plan how to solve it and the technologies you would use, and do it using only the docs.

I hope want that you only get into tutorials because you want genuinely want to learn something new. Thank you.

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