[patleeman]

Middle out is how I learned to program actually.

I started with basic lessons on Codecademy to learn the basic concepts and jumped between reading books and researching concepts and building small projects. I feel like I got the best of both worlds. When I hit a concept I didn't understand or needed clarity on, I went and researched the underlying fundamentals.

I've seen developers that have gone top down and they struggle with basic programming logic because they don't have the fundamental knowledge. On the flip side, I can't imagine studying CS and learning all the CS fundamentals without going ahead and building stuff the whole time.