[capydev42]

This matches my experience.

I went through a lot of courses trying to find the “right” one, but didn’t end up building much.

What actually worked was learning the basics and then jumping into small, messy projects. That’s where things started to click.

I think courses are useful for building initial intuition, but they can create a false sense of progress. You feel like you're learning a lot, but you’re not forced to deal with real constraints or problems.

The biggest shift for me was going from “following along” to “figuring things out”.