Went from tutorials to building my own stuff and it clicked way faster
Honestly, I spent like 3 months on Codecademy and freeCodeCamp just copying their exercises, and I could follow along fine but then I'd try to do anything on my own and freeze up. Last week I decided to build a simple calculator in JavaScript from scratch without any hand-holding, and I learned more in 2 days than I did in those whole 3 months. It was rough at first, I kept forgetting how to do loops and array stuff, but actually debugging my own broken code made it stick in my brain. Has anyone else hit that wall where tutorials feel like a crutch and you just gotta force yourself to build something real?