Get Out of Tutorial Hell: Stop Buying Tutorials | Become a Web Developer
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2022
- So you want to be a web developer?
It's a great career choice, but it can also be tough to learn everything on your own. That's where tutorials can help, but it can be easy to get stuck in "tutorial hell" where you're buying tutorial after tutorial and not making any real progress. In this video, I share a few tips on getting out of tutorial hell and becoming a web developer!
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The thing I find is that if your just watching tutorials expecting to just soak up the information "passively", that's not gonna happen. But if you are "actively" seeking out the information through things like documentation and using it right then and there, whether it fails or succeeds you learn a whole lot more in that situation.
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Can’t agree more bud.
So you mean that we learn by practicing and searching at the same time rather just laying watch tutorial and after finish we do our tasks? (by the way i am in the second situation)
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what is documentation? Is it like written resources
Honestly the only resource I would recommend is Frontend Master, no projects just pure explanation and categorize for you to learn specific subjects.
Your new setup is clean and reading documentation is so valuable to learn. Great video Chris!
This is probably my favorite video you have ever made. I like the format and everything. These quick tid bits of info from someone experienced is amazing
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Hey Chris! I just wanted to add to your message. Sometimes even for beginners documentation does not help. They won't understand the wording or what it is the framework or language does. In that instance, they'll need to use the documentation to play with the code and find their own level of understanding. But even then, it won't put you in a position to build application without getting bugs or just not knowing how to build or program their application. Languages and frameworks are huge and it'll take mounts playing with the code base developing a basic understanding. Also each framework and language has different levels of understanding, such as, how it's used on the frontend, sever, database, debugging, authentication, request, responses etc...
The documentation will provide you with a getting started tutorial sometimes; and it's enough to get you up and running. But for beginners, they will get stuck. they'll need to know how to navigate through the language or framework's documentation but there is no road map for that. What people also need to understand is, documentation is not used as a source to teach you how to code. it's used for reference with outlined information about what a curtain function, method, variable, property, or array does. what documentation does not do, it does not tell you, when your building your application, this is how you should use the code base. that's how beginners get lost.
Another video I didn’t know I needed. I’ll be applying these lessons so I can progress further to finally get my first front-end career because my mind and body are tired from these warehouse positions.
I'm right there with ya om that one! Good luck! 👍
I feel you on that one. Working at a warehouse is physically and mentally draining.
Good luck on your journey!
I felt this one here bro. Im 39 im switching over to tech now tired of this warehouse
Same here I really need a new career how is your progress going
I have also worked in warehouses. They make you work like a donkey. Good luck for you next career!
Great vid. I use some tutorials but I always make 1 project or small projects for whatever I learn and I think it’s been helping my studies. Like you said before, for me the biggest thing is consistency when motivation fails
This video is hilarious to me. Just last week I was on a tech blog, and can confirm it's so much easier going through it, than sifting through a video(you are skipping parts.... right?), Otherwise, you end up spending SO much time on these videos.
Lol thanks for helping prove my point 😂
I've always felt a bit different when it came to learning. Nowadays everyone is doing video courses or watching CZcams videos, but I always buy books or read docs on a particular subject. I've always liked books just because I feel like I can really grasp a concept quickly because it's usually laid out very well. I can also flip back to a particular page if I'm ever wondering the syntax.
I love your video. It's just the advice I needed. Not for getting outta tutorial hell but to learn and get better at coding. Thank you bro.
Glad it helped!
I think I've been in tutorial for a long time. Thanks for pointing this out, I'll try out using documentations to learn how to code
Thanks Chris! You've convinced me. Stepping out of tutorial hell today!
i really appreciate this alot.. you just saved a lad here. thanks man.
Chris! This video is gold! Thank you!
It is so refreshing that the narrative is changing for tech people on youtube. Chris I need to commend you for being honest! so many tech youtubers out there promote there own courses and don't say how you should be learning.
Yes. I’ve spent too many hours on CZcams ‘clone projects’. And finished none. Most are too long and full of fluff.
great vid ! thanks for sharing your advice
Thanks for this Chris
Video I needed and didn’t know it. Dropping the tutorials I have and focus on learning what I need.
Yooooooooooooooo! Dude, Thanks. I will follow what you've suggested here. I've been learning React for the past 3 years and I feel as though I haven't learned a thing, but I have over 30 Udemy courses half of which are React courses. Lol!😁
Many thanks chris.
If you don't mind can you please make video for data engineering roadmap?
Hey Chris, first off thank you for all your videos and just a beautiful down to earth personality. It’s refreshing to see real people in the game winning and actually enjoying the career. Ok so now to my question.. Do you think that someone who started in a different role, say like QA testing, would have a benefit to transition to Software engineering or is it a disadvantage and difficult or unwise to try to transition once you are in a particular tech role? Thank you in advance for responding and GOD BLESS
I really want to try the 1 on 1 mentorship meeting. Have you guys done it? How is the advice? I would like to know if I'm good to start freelancing and what steps I should take in my current position.
OMG! this video just saved me from quitting... THANK YOU! :)
Dude awesome video. 👌
You'll always need tutorials (not neccesarily video tutorials) because you can't just ever sit down and "learn something completely".
Concepts can be composed (e.g., you might learn about queues but you might not have seen them used with synchronization primitives in a concurrent program). If you've never done that, it would be wise to watch/read a tutorial on how it's used.
Documentation provides the simplest examples to explain itself but not necessarily how it ought to be used in your context. Modifying the tutorial's examples to achieve your goals (e.g., to build a particular app/implement a feature) is what it means to break away from tutorials.
Okay. This may sound silly, but, what is “documentation”? I have been learning to code through freecodecamp and Odin project. Is there a better and faster way to learn web development?
what's the best way to find documentation for potential projects I want to do? is there a certain website for that?
Yeah man tutorials are often giving a very simple applicable example, there are often a lot of details that are left out that kind of hinder your depth of understanding. I do think documentation is pretty important, but how the documentation is also written also affects how I learn too. I remember when I was doing my senior project with .NET, the Microsoft documentation is so barebones and expects you to know so much. While Google documentation is a lot more friendly and is quite straight to the point.
What does he mean by documentation? I don't understand
@@johncitizen5843 Documentation is often like user manuals made for the technology you're using. It's kind of like being a mechanic and checking the manuals when you need to understand what you're fixing or building more deeply.
Love your videos man am new to the journey and would love to get your guidance
This is cool video, i like the lighting! :)
Thanks bud
Hey folks. I need help with what “documentation” what does that mean?
Is it when we inspect a page???
I'm looking for this video all my life!
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Thanks for the encouraging video as with all your videos!
Thanks for watching!
Hey Chris i have been following you for years my friend. I recently finished learning python, i made an arcade game using OOP and the pygame library. all i know is python and want to get a job, but im afraid i dont have enough broad knowledge. I am going to buy a book today on javascript and html & css. i want to work as a backend developer but it seems learning javascript and html css will be the quickest way to get a job. does this sound like a good decision?
Thank you for this, Sean!! 👏🏻
Thanks for the support!
Can you make a video about ui/ux designer vs a front end developer?
What they do and who earns more? Thanks chris!
What’s up Chris! I just came accorss your Channel this month, really dig the content. I recently started my journey to becoming a dev and wanted to ask your thoughts on Meta’s (Facebook) new courses on Coursera. I want to get into blockchain dev eventually but the Meta course seemed like a good place to start and get a job in the industry faster. I just finished the 1st of 9 modules in the cert program and really like the teaching style, just wondering what you think about the program overall and the likelihood of being able to get a job soon after competing it. Thanks!
When you say Documentation. What do you mean, what is that exactly, like how do I learn with it?
Thank You for this video sir..I'm progressing day by day on my own..
You got this!
Hi. I’m new to this but where can I build personal projects?? Thanks
Hey Chris Sean, what Python framework(s) do you use for back-end development?
Probably Flask, Django, or Fastapi.
Thank you
Whoop whoop! Go NZ 😁 Great video as always!
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i love this vid boostingggg
Thanks a lot.
react hooks finally clicked for me when i read a technical blog, and read the documentation
Awesome 👍🏿💪🏿👏🏾🤓
Where can I find documentation of the languages?
You’ve come a long way, Chris. You never minded the haters
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Please make a video on importance of practice in coding . I study coding I clear all the concepts online but when it comes to practice am unable to do.
hey whats up bro ! been a while since you posted but hey I tried to download your discord but you havent friended me yet on it but when you have time. thanks for all the videos but hows the new updates on becoming a web dev ?
Do a setup tour bro
Im the udemy guy....realized i was being held back trying to figure out how to do the project at the end with constant issues. I stopped n said let me try to build a portfolio site as a start...All I'm gonna say..bootstrap is heaven sent n gave me motivation i needed
Wooooo!!
@@RealChrisSean Just need some better consistency! And a better way to plan out my site before I do anything. I feel stuck sometimes thinking how it should look like.
What should I learn for front end developing? I’m new to this but I want to learn fast
I’m uploading a video this weekend on how to do it in 6 months with a detailed and what tutorials to use
I am doing the code mentor course. Simply shows you a design and you have to go build it then submit it. But I’ve learnt more doing that than any udemy course I’ve ever purchased.
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That's a really great video chris!
I'm fully aware of how tutorial hell can waste my time and technically put me at this endless cycle, but I'm also kind of struggling to pick projects I can start practicing on and build.. I'd be grateful if you could make us a video of how to pick practice projects that would look good on a personal portfolio.. Like do I have to remake a site that I already like or should I just look at what tutorials are doing and try doing them my own way?
I would suggest building projects, you dont need big ones, you can add things to smaller ones, like myself when i was learning JavaScript, i done dice game, client side authentication, clock, than later i added sound of clock for every minute and sound when you hit 1 hour, added requirement of username on dice game, and reset button, you dont need to build complex things to look good, start small and build up on top of that,bif you stuck go to mdn stack overflow, programming is 90% problem solving and 10% code writing, also dont be shy to look up on internet solution, try inspect solution code and understand, as you code more and more you will better and problem, but you never will be pro its impossible.
Try Front End Mentor. Great project ideas….no tutorials…..just feedback. All levels are available. I’m loving it.
Is Documentation like books?
Chris this is an amazing video, chris could you please make a video about data structures & algorithms, I’ve always asked myself how good I need to be in the subject and how often I am going to use it as a front end developer
Sorry bud not something I work with so I can’t teach it.
@@RealChrisSean thank you Chris, I was just wondering if front end developers need to be good at data structure & algorithms or this is just for the back end developers
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Speaking truth. Fastest way to learn something is building something of your own. It forces you to do the research he talks about (Google, stack overflow, etc). After doing a quick course in Python I built my own project. From experience I can tell you following a tutorial I’d easy. And it helps to get the basics down. When you build something of your own there is no roadmap because you are literally creating it as you go. You will fail, but stick with it and you will succeed. Btw I made money 💰 on my project.
What project did you work on?
The thing is , JavaScript it’s a great programming language but! It’s hard to implement, I will always need to research keep forgetting ... what’s the pest solutions when it comes here ?
JavaScript is kicking my ass. Anyone got resources to practice Js?
Let's work together to figure this shit out.
@@ericmoore6671 I’d be down. What resources are you using? I went through the Js free code camp section. I tried to work at a few problems by myself but I need more reinforcement. I have been using Codecademy and things have been clicking a little better
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My ADHD is extremely bad I can’t sit threw long tutorials. I’d open the manuals and then I search for video explaining basics concepts so, I understand them!
Same lol
I took a coding class, the teacher didn’t teach us Python. He basically gave us slideshows and pointed us towards the documentation. That’s how we finished all the class projects. He basically taught us how to read the documentation, some syntax and we were off. Made a B.
This job is offering to tech me and starting at 60 k but I’m in contract and have to work there for like 3 years I get yearly raises garanteed what do y’all think ?
Sounds like Uber. I got an email for them a month and a half ago, saying their have partner with Pursuit to help fellow Uber driver to a become software engineers with a no upfront cost with a one year program. After completion and offered a high-paying job at the rate of $60000 or more (the average salary for graduates is $85000 you will get to work for Uber as a software engineer but after doing my due-diligence I found out you will have to work for Uber under contract for 3 years until you paid back, I believe $30k for the program that you took. Honestly I thought to myself that wasn't a even trade off so now I'm teaching myself how to code.
@@Diyoza781 naaw u dont have to pay it back just have to work the 3 years wif you breach contract you pay the remaining of your 20 k other then that its a job
chris are you data engineer now?
My problem while I'm learning web dev with a udemy course, is that I really don't know which lectures are indeed important for me as a future developer, and which videos I shouldn't waste my time on watching them, specially the long ones.
This is really me
I wish I can talk to you personally
Exactly
I agree, Tutorials can be saturated but what if the length of tutorial is only long because the instructor used prior knowledge an also pulled majority of the information from documentation.
There’s nothing wrong with long tuts
Salamat sa payo bro.
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What does “documentation” mean exactly?
It's like a book of a language. Basics to Advanced.
This is why I bought Angela Yu's web development course; she keeps me focused 24/7!
How have you been!? Long time no talk :)
@@RealChrisSean I'm well, thank you! I hope you are too, Chris! I've been watching you undercover. Always have, always will I have your channel Bookmarked.
Take it easy!
Ohh man help! The total bootcamp Im in right now is a big Tutourial H**L. I learn faster to stand on my own feet by Google info and YT courses. How important is a diploma from a bootcamp anyways? This is a horrible discovery man👀🙈. I THANK so much for this channel🙏
I originally learned Python from a book which was a. Great experience. I’m moving on to html css and JavaScript with books right now. But I recently found a web development boot camp Udemy course that teaches through video tutorials. Do you think the Udemy Courses are worth it or best to stick with my original book learning approach?
@@91dgross Hello Sir. I think that you should do both if its possible for you to manage. Reading is good and then do a combo with that udemy course👍👍
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How can I join your discord
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We have our own opinion. Like me, I learn by examples. And there are tutorials that explains better than the documentation itself.
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To the dev community. Whether if its web or software. Do you do your work at home? Or whatever isn't done at the end of your 8hrs is continued the next day?
Yup
@@RealChrisSean Both? Sure it pays well, but what's the point if I don't have time to enjoy the fruits of my labor?
I never work more than 8 hrs a day. If I do… I take that time off the next day.
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ive learned the best from books, they go more in depth
They’re amazing
Found out I learn reading documents. I bought udemy course for html, css and JavaScript but found it took long. So I went to freecodecamp camp and started doing. And right now im doing the Odin project
Great job!
literally me rn :'))
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I just bought a Spring Boot tutorial for work before watch this video 💀
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i really like brо, thank you
A tutorial about not watching tutorials. Classic.
I hate the last tip. HOW THE HELL CAN YOU BUILD SOMETHING WHEN YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO BUILD SOMETHING!!!!?
That's a problem a lot of people have and can't figure out.
Tutorials are a waist of time. Learn to read documentation.
They’re not a complete waste of time. But they can def waste your time lol
Or schools that say they are not school. Lmao right now
whats sooo funny I am the same damn way i cant watch the tutorial i can watch you do it and i gotta leave and read about it to connect the dots and then do it then do it and everything else Ive learned I add onto it so my project is looking like a damn demo page lol. too much talking be having me lost AF
This sounds like me lol
@@RealChrisSean I have a question about project ideas is there any good sites that share projects for beginners? Also is there somewhere you can see a markup of what a designer would want a coder to create like what does that look like?
Video on this is releasing tomorrow.
@@RealChrisSean oh wow ok!!!
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@@RealChrisSean im playing bro. Im a subscriber i love your content.
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