I've been thinking about something lately.
Then I started building my own projects.
That's when I realized how different real development actually is.
Tutorials usually work perfectly.
Real projects don't.
You run into bugs that don't make sense.
You spend hours reading documentation.
You break things while trying to fix something else.
And sometimes the smallest typo steals half your day.
It can be frustrating, but I've learned more from debugging my own mistakes than from watching dozens of videos.
Now I try to build small projects as soon as I learn something new, even if they're messy.
I'd rather struggle through a real problem than complete another "build a clone in 20 minutes" tutorial.
Curious how others approached this.
When did you feel like you actually started learning development?
Was it tutorials, building projects, contributing to open source, or something else?
Then I started building my own projects.
That's when I realized how different real development actually is.
Tutorials usually work perfectly.
Real projects don't.
You run into bugs that don't make sense.
You spend hours reading documentation.
You break things while trying to fix something else.
And sometimes the smallest typo steals half your day.
It can be frustrating, but I've learned more from debugging my own mistakes than from watching dozens of videos.
Now I try to build small projects as soon as I learn something new, even if they're messy.
I'd rather struggle through a real problem than complete another "build a clone in 20 minutes" tutorial.
Curious how others approached this.
When did you feel like you actually started learning development?
Was it tutorials, building projects, contributing to open source, or something else?
