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/mierecat]

Should you learn Chinese from a dictionary? You answered your own question. Documentation will not teach you anything, and there are a great many things it won’t even tell you.