[chobytes]

Yeah, this sort of stuff is fine supplementary material... but nobody really learns anything from a blog post or some videos.

[rustybolt]

I disagree. Maybe you'll remember it not as well if you don't do exercises, but there is no reason you can't learn from a blogpost (which is trivial to prove since you can just copy-paste the contents of a book in the form of one or more blogposts).

[yori]

What your parent comment meant was that it is not possible to learn well from typical blog posts like this that try to condense the subject into a 3000 word article. Of course, if you copy-paste the content of a book into a blog post, then parent comment's point no longer applies.

[ginnungagap]

I'd say it still applies, even when reading a textbook going through the exercises is crucial