[em-bee]

If you’re spending your time reading programming resources and following tutorials directly, regularly checking against a guide to ensure your program matches the example, you’re almost surely doing yourself a disservice. Your success in following a guide lies in your ability to grasp the concepts, not to type a working program.

i like tutorials to give me a starting point. when i want to build something that i don't know how to do from scratch i look for a tutorial that builds something similar, and then start making changes until i get the result i want. that's where the learning happens.