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Stared at a tutorial for 2 hours and the dude never explained why it worked
Went to a free coding meetup downtown last week and the guy leading it just copy-pasted a React component, ran it, and said 'see, that's it'. Nobody in the room under 5 years of experience learned anything, I asked him to break down the state flow and he gave me a blank look. Has anyone else hit this wall with tutorials that assume you already know the framework?
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the_hugo1mo ago
The last 4 tutorials I watched on React hooks all did the same thing. Maybe the point of those meetups is just to show beginners what's possible, not to teach them how to build it themselves. I mean, if you want the deep why, you're probably better off reading the actual docs or building something tiny on your own and breaking it on purpose. Tutorials that explain every step are honestly boring and most people skip ahead anyway. But yeah, I get the frustration, just saying the other side has some merit too.
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