[wccrawford]

This is basically how I'd been telling people to learn from programming tutorial videos for years:

Do the exercise with the video. Do it again, only referencing the video when necessary. If you used the video a lot, do it a third time.

If it doesn't stick after a third time, it probably isn't going to without more tutorials, so go ahead and continue on. I'm betting most people get enough out of the second time, though, especially after doing this a few times and getting the hang of it.

And it's more or less what I've always done, though maybe not exactly following those steps.

[swah]

Reminds of the ole "Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."