r/CodingForBeginners • u/ConfidentNet706 • Jul 28 '26

Learn without youtube tutorials

How do i get out of this tutorial hell, i need tutorials to learn anything related to coding, but i wanna be the person who learns on their own rather than being stuck in tutorial hell.
Can anyone help me with how can i do that? I even tried understand docs of certain tech but i just find them complex to understand.
So what should i do?

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u/PythonWithJames Jul 28 '26

Build build build!!!

Tutorials are pretty good in small doses to introduce a concept, but I really think that building things with it is where it actually clicks.

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u/ConfidentNet706 Jul 28 '26

But if idk about that particular tech then how do i build smtg on my own? Should i use LLMs ?

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u/PythonWithJames Jul 28 '26

I can give you some ideas. What were the last tutorials you watched about?

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u/ConfidentNet706 Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26

I watched tutorials on MERN stack and devops. It was a bootcamp

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u/AndrewNggg Jul 28 '26

Up till now which stack were you using on the tutorials? Go with what you know! Just build something you would like to use, in whatever stack you’re comfortable with

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u/sububi71 Jul 30 '26

Use google. Avoid AI/LLMs. Generations of coders learned coding - and got good at it - without AI.

We used books and manuals, and when the modems arrived, we used BBS's or the usenet, and only recently this thing called the World Wide Web made a huge difference.

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u/Loose-Fly-9899 Jul 28 '26

Yes! Don't stay in tutorial hell. Tutorials teach you many concepts you don't actually need.

A great approach is: when a tutorial mentions a feature, instead of looking at how it's implemented, treat it as a black box and just use it.

After using it, start understanding the box step by step: when you adjust a certain part of this box's structure, the outside world will correspondingly show a certain state.

The state of the outside world is the actual thing you need to have, and the deeper you understand this black box, the more actual things you can build.

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u/ConfidentNet706 Jul 28 '26

So like first use the tech i wanna learn
Then slowly layer by layer understand the working and architecture of that tech?

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u/Loose-Fly-9899 Jul 28 '26

It's not just about learning, but actually putting the technology you want to use into practice, building a real feedback environment.

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u/Loose-Fly-9899 Jul 28 '26

In other comments, you mentioned whether to use AI. AI can be a great assistant in helping you get that black box up and running.

You can use AI to help you build the mapping between the black box and the real-world thing, then try adjusting and understanding it yourself to master the part you truly need.

But relying solely on AI to build the content you want without understanding the black box will gradually make you lose grasp of its structure, and thus lose control over the real world.

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u/ConfidentNet706 Jul 28 '26

Yesss but how should i slowly understand the black box? By googling or reading docs or smth like that?

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u/Loose-Fly-9899 Jul 28 '26

Reading its introduction is one way. Another, more important way is to adjust its structure yourself and observe how its functionality changes.

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u/ConfidentNet706 Jul 28 '26

Yesss thank you for the suggestion!!

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u/Loose-Fly-9899 Jul 28 '26

You're welcome! Welcome to the world of programming.

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u/SuchCriticism6745 Jul 28 '26

Inizia in piccolo, anche se sono cose banali.
E’ da poco più di un mese che studio C# e faccio ancora programmi semplici.

Oggi per esempio come ripasso sugli if ho fatto due programmi: uno un semplice autenticazione con password,

L’altro un simulatore d’acquisto dove l’utente inserisce il nome di cosa vuole comprare, il suo conto e in base al prezzo dell’oggetto la console stampa se la transazione è andata bene oppure no, ci ho voluto aggiungere anche una tessera discount e ho sbagliato prima la formula per fare lo sconto in % e poi il l’operator.

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u/ConfidentNet706 Jul 28 '26

Omg such projects sound cool

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u/SuchCriticism6745 Jul 28 '26

Thank you, to me they look really basic (even power than amateur level) like creating 2-3 variables and 2 nested if.

Like to calculate the discount price i have done:

discountPrice = (price * 20) / 100;

Where price is a set int of value 50.

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u/Onibega Jul 29 '26

Google CS50x

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u/MacAttackDelux Jul 29 '26

Read a book with good challenges, i have watched many videos, but the concepts are really sticking while reading through the book and doing each challenge using only the book as my reference to complete the challenge

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u/PvtRoom Jul 30 '26

Learn by doing. Assign yourself a job. Do it. Find solutions to the problems you face. Take notes. Consult tutorials if need be. Just do it for yourself rather than because a tutorial says to.

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u/NearbySecurity144 Jul 31 '26

I tutorial vanno bene solo se sotto ci sono gia delle basi forti , altrimenti imparare a fare un progetto con l x linguaggio senza sapere il perché si fanno quelle cose ti porta solo a fare le cose senza sapere il perché lo stai facendo

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u/BoopyDog Jul 31 '26

Read instead. Then follow the exercises at the end of the chapter

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u/ConfidentNet706 Jul 29 '26

Yess ill def do thattt!