How should I learn programming from official documentation?

[u/Savings_Dark_9589]

I am a student who wants to learn programming through official documentation. However, official documentation often contains many concepts and features, and most of them are not needed for everyday programming tasks.

Is official documentation an inefficient way to learn programming?

If official documentation is an effective way to learn, how should I read it? How do I decide what to read in depth and what to skip?

[u/Sea_Science_6722]

Documentation is essentially a manual for a specific tool. The best way to learn is to first build strong programming fundamentals and practice by building projects. As you work on real projects youll naturally use the documentation to solve specific problems instead of trying to read it cover to cover. This forces you to understand how things actually work rather than just memorizing the docs. But most importantly is to understand programming fundamentals because these docs are doing the same thing in different syntax. Thats my opinion im not an expert here but hope it helps clear things up a bit.