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I tried learning from a big textbook vs. just building a dumb little game and the difference was huge
Last week I tried to learn Python by reading a 700-page book my friend gave me. It was so dry, just pages of theory and syntax rules. I got through three chapters and felt like I hadn't actually made anything. Then I gave up and followed a 30-minute YouTube tutorial on making a simple number guessing game. Having that little project to work on, even with copy-pasting code at first, made everything click. I could see why the 'if' statements mattered and what the loops were actually doing. The book felt like learning to swim by reading a manual, but the game was like being thrown in the shallow end with floaties. Has anyone else found that just making a tiny, pointless project is way better than trying to absorb everything at once?
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ellis.leo1mo ago
My buddy did that with a to-do app, total game changer.
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lopez.quinn1mo ago
Yeah it's like that with most things... I tried learning guitar from a book and it was awful, but once I just tried to play a dumb song I liked, it made sense.
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