You ever just watch a YouTube guide but dont really learn anything or dont know where to go afterwards? well i made a meme about it if you have felt this way.

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[–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This is a fantastic approach.

I wanted to learn web-dev so I built a blog and a web hostable 5e character generator. Ended up learning authentication, HTTP stuff, database management, and learned CSS and HTML to handle the frontend (backend is Python).

They're not production ready, there's not even a proper server built in, just a basic wsgi dev server, but I'm proud of it and it taught me a ton!

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

I did the same! Wanted to learn golang, so I built a blog. Kept it simple and used other tech I knew already for the css and backend. Didn’t even enable uploads. This way, I learned go much faster than if I had learned it from scratch. The basics are good. But we’re not trying to be experts. We’re trying to have fun and build stuff.