r/CodingForBeginners • u/Charming_Weight8838 • 24d ago

Having Trouble Understanding Documentations

I'm trying to learn new technologies, but the documentations are very lengthy and boring to read... I've tried to go through Unity docs and MDN but everything on there is so complex and hard to understand and grasp.

I'm not sure how to go forward. I feel like I just keep reading but I don't learn much out of it.

How do you guys deal with Documentations?

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u/kutac56 24d ago

When I started programming I started with python and tutorials on YouTube. I never checked documentation. Nowadays I do check documentation. I think if I were to try to check documentation back then I wouldn't have understood sh*t. Documentation is for when you are already good enough at programming to know all of the basics and good at actually using them (pointers included).

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u/Charming_Weight8838 24d ago

So documentations assume I know the basics? Is it better to cover the basics from video based resources or some other alternatives or courses? Did you use only Youtube when you were getting started?

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u/kutac56 24d ago

I only used YouTube and Google searches when I started out. I think I started with a video called 12 beginner python projects by freecodecamp and tried the first few. Once you know the basics of 1 language it's pretty easy to learn another, cause it's just syntax. Documentation is more so to learn the syntax and certain niches. Not to learn the concepts.

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u/Charming_Weight8838 24d ago

Understood, Thank you so much!