Just realized Udemy courses and free YouTube tutorials give completely different results

I spent 3 months doing a $50 Udemy Python course and could follow along fine, but when I tried building my own project I was stuck. Then I switched to free YouTube tutorials that made me type everything from scratch and fix my own bugs. Which approach actually teaches you better coding skills for beginners?

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jakeb252mo ago

Did your buddy ever try the CS50 course from Harvard on YouTube? That one made my friend actually debug his own code for hours. Ended up learning way more from free stuff that forced him to fail a bunch.

henry_martinez2mo ago

Life's just like that, you gotta break shit to really learn it.

ben20620d ago

Yeah, totally. I mean, back when I was trying to learn some basic coding for a project I was messing around with, I spent a whole weekend just trying to get a stupid script to work. I must've broken it like ten times, deleted everything, started over. That's when I actually started to get it, you know? The mistakes were way more useful than watching some tutorial where everything goes perfect.