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My learning has progressed from one area to the next--each person learns differently, and coding can be easy to learn, but like everything else it's difficult to master. I started out on google, pulling snippets/coaxing them to do my will, then I became good at reading docs -- and implementing straight from the docs, for instance in Laravel/Rails apps.

The next big change for me was going beyond the docs to the actual API to do even more customization, and override existing methods. It's a progression from low-level understanding to higher, and whatever gets you there - just don't give up.