When you guys are learning something/learning to make something, are you usually looking it up, watching a video, or reading a book? Or are you trying it on your own without knowledge on how?

I tend to either learn to do something from tutorials or books. But if I feel like I have an idea I’ll try it but then hit the books or internet if not.

How do you guys tackle learning something you haven’t before?

@M1sf3t I tend to have trouble interpreting docs sometimes. But that also goes for books, tuts, courses, etc. Cause sometimes I have questions they don’t explain and I don’t know how else the project can be made or what can be done differently so I can make it mine and prove I understand it, and that’s what I genuinely have a problem with.

Like rn I’m messing around with a library in python but I don’t understand how to really do a lot in the library after watching some tutorials. I mean I have learned a few things and learned some of the recommendations and why they work but when I try to do things on my own I start to have problems and I fucking hate it.

@Bubbles I'm a mix of both and I definitely relate to your pain of "well what about X", that nobody addresses, so I end up searching it up through docs, incremental keywords, or even trying to get in contact with people that have a track record in that matter.

@JoshBent I’m glad someone knows the pain, it eases my stress a bit

@M1sf3t I feel like a lot of the things I get confused about are effects that are visual/UI based, because I need to see how it’s used and how the code is used to get it like that, so I know how to edit it.

There’s other occasions too but I can’t think of them at the top of my head

I usually find something that is interesting ie: new language or tech to use, then find a project that sounds like it would benefit from the new thing, take on the project and try to learn how the new thing actually works while poking around in the dark, fuck things up and cry into a bottle of bourbon then go read the documentation and scour stack overflow for help before finally disconnecting my phone, packing up my life and moving to a new town with a new identity.

Try not to do this please :)

@87percentrum idk man that’s a mood

I usually step to it with a good book or a nice tutorial.
After I understanding the fundamental, I'll continue with a simple project: hands on experiment

From then: GIYF

I buy a book and read half, watch about a third of a video, buy a udemy class and casually skip through, but ultimately end up diving in and start building something. I learn best from trial and error I suppose.

I still try to approach it differently each time however, because I'm a stubborn bastard.