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Back when I started, I tried to learn from a huge 800-page book before even touching a computer.
It was a total waste of time compared to just using a site like freeCodeCamp and building a tiny project, even a broken one, right away. Getting that first 'Hello World' to actually show up on a screen made the whole thing click. What was the first real thing you got to work when you were starting out?
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michael_bennett112mo agoMost Upvoted
Mine was a terrible website (it was just green text on black) but it ran!
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averysullivan2mo ago
Honestly that's the real spirit of it. It might look rough but if it works, it works. That's how you learn.
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mason_foster681mo ago
Had a buddy in college who built a whole app for tracking his gym progress using nothing but notepad files and a batch script. It was literally just a list of numbers that popped up in a command window and he had to type the date in manually every time. Looked like something from 1995 but he knew exactly how every single piece of it worked because he built it from scratch. He refused to use any pre-made templates or tools because he wanted to understand what was actually happening under the hood. Ended up teaching a couple of us how to do basic scripting just by showing us his janky little system. That thing got him through two years of workouts before he finally switched to a real app and by then he already knew exactly what features actually mattered to him.
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