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Showerthought: I spent a month trying to learn from big project tutorials before switching to tiny practice scripts
I kept trying to follow those 'build a full website in a day' videos, but I'd get lost after the first 20 minutes. About six weeks ago, I switched to writing ten-line scripts that do one thing, like count words in a file or flip a coin 100 times. The difference was huge. I actually finished things and understood every part. Now I feel way more solid on the basics before trying bigger stuff. Has anyone else found that starting super small helped them get it?
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sage_lewis101mo agoMost Upvoted
Totally get what you mean about finishing those ten-line scripts! @thead44 makes a good point about big projects having real problems to fix. But how do you balance that? Like, do you now feel ready to spot those same problems in a bigger mess of code because you learned the pieces first?
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