Stuck on Tutorial Hell? Here's What You Missed!

I’ve been there.

Stuck in the loop of tutorial hell. Every day watching YouTube videos.Taking notes on everything the instructor says. But when it’s time to actually code?Constantly switching back and forth to the documentation.

This happens a lot to beginners in programming.Why? Because we’re taught to believe that we need to finish tutorials first before we can be “good.”

Let me make this very clear:

WATCHING TUTORIALS !== BEING GOOD AT CODING

You get good at coding by practicing.By running into errors.By fixing bugs again and again.

Before the AI era, I searched for solutions on Google.And yeah—there was that place everyone ran to when errors showed up.

Back then, if something broke, the answer was almost always on Stack Overflow.

But that’s not the main point here.

If you’re just starting out right now, stop clinging to YouTube tutorials.Instead, build a small project.

A calculator. A simple timer. Anything small.

Then wrap it properly. Follow best practices. Make it clean.

Here’s the real tip: just start. Start messy.

Turn off the tutorial videos.Open the documentation.And start coding.

Will it be confusing? Absolutely.