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Switched from copying YouTube tutorials line by line to actually reading the docs last month
I spent my first 6 months of learning JavaScript copying whatever some guy in a hoodie did on screen, then my project broke after a single update. I finally sat down with the MDN documentation for 3 hours one Saturday and actually understood why my loops were failing. Has anyone else hit that wall where tutorials stop working and you have to dig into the official docs?
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evanpalmer8d ago
Man I feel this. I spent like two weeks following a guy named Dave who built a to-do app in 20 minutes, and when I tried to add a filter my whole browser crashed. Read the MDN page on array methods and realized Dave was using a weird outdated version of forEach that didn't even exist anymore. Felt real dumb but at least now I can spell "callback" without sweating.
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keithyoung8d ago
Oh yeah the "Dave" tutorial trap. I once followed a guy who used a 2014 version of jQuery that didn't exist anymore and spent three hours wondering why my click events were ghosts.
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