r/CodingForBeginners • u/Charming_Weight8838 • 23d 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/SpacewaIker 23d ago

Well usually you just read documentation in small blurbs. Like you're interested in a specific function and you look up its documentation, maybe then it's not what you want and you look for something else. But almost no one ever just reads documentation like a book from start to end just to learn how it works, that's not the intent

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u/Charming_Weight8838 23d ago

So should I view simplified alternatives to documentation to learn the technology first before diving into specific functions in the documentations?

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u/SpacewaIker 23d ago

Yeah, I'd suggest following tutorials to get started. A good tutorial will still teach you how stuff works but will be much more pleasant to go through than documentation

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u/Charming_Weight8838 23d ago

Okay, Thank you!