All those 'learn Python in 24 hours' videos are useless for beginners

I checked a study from a coding bootcamp that showed 78% of people who start with those crash courses quit within 2 weeks. Has anyone else found that slow projects at your own pace work way better than trying to speedrun?

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spencerw721h ago

The "learn Python in 24 hours" thing reminds me of when I tried to learn guitar from one of those "master chords in a week" booklets. I spent three days on the first page and quit for six months. With coding, I found that just building a dumb little calculator app over a weekend taught me more than watching 10 hours of tutorials. My buddy tried the 24 hour route and ended up copying code without understanding what if statements actually do. Slow and boring projects that break when you mess up, that's how you actually learn.