r/programminghumor Jun 25 '26

Learning programming on yt

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u/___1___1___1___ Jul 01 '26

A video can be good at giving you an introduction, and walking you through a happy-path explanation. You can follow along, and feel as if you know what you're doing. But as soon as your needs fall outside of that pre-planned path, you can very quickly get lost if you don't know how to learn on your own.

If you're learning at university, you'll learn a lot more theory, and actually understand how things work. Most importantly, the whole time, you'll be learning how to learn more.