On Tutorial Purgatory again, or Tutorial Hell
Posted: 11-18-2025
Tutorials are never going to be able to teach you everything. They are a great starting point, not just because you are spoonfed knowledge, but also because you can observe how the tutorial 'thinks' through the process. The value of tutorials is giving you a grasp on how things can be done, and how you can improve on what you know. They also teach you the basics.
However, tutorials won't teach you how to implement a feature that you've come up with, it won't teach you the standards of the company you'll work on. You can learn good practices or best practices, but sometimes, those only come from paid tutorials or paid courses.
To escape tutorial hell is to understand that you must accept your inexperience, or unawareness in development, but staying open to search and read through documentations to come up with the solution or find other people's solution. "Fine, i'll do it myself" is what so many developers have done in the past. They only reinvent the wheel if the present wheel is inadequate, and nowadays, we take too many things in tech for granted.
So no matter how much time you spend, no matter how much trial and error you undergo, no matter how you feel that you are not progressing, as long as you are reading, coding, and understanding something, you can escape the clutches of tutorials, and start thinking like the people that make tutorials.