My uncle told me to skip tutorials and just build stuff, and he was dead right | Coding For Beginners

Mary Sanchez · 2026-10-09T08:20:02.478681+00:00

He handed me a broken calculator app idea and told me to build it from scratch, no videos, no guides. Took me 9 days of googling error messages and I actually understood loops and functions way better than 6 hours of watching someone else do it. Anyone else learn faster by just breaking things?

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