My neighbor spent two months trying to learn Python from random YouTube videos and got nowhere.
He told me he felt lost because every video started in a different place and used different terms for the same thing. I sat him down with the official Python tutorial for just one weekend and he built his first working script. Why do people think a structured path is boring when it clearly works?
Man, that's so true. I tried to learn to bake sourdough from a million different blogs and just wasted flour. Finally got a cookbook that laid it out step by step and it clicked right away. Sometimes you just need a map.
Disagree honestly. I learned sourdough from a random blog video and it worked great. Sometimes the free stuff online is just as good if you find the right person explaining it.
My own attempt at learning guitar was a total mess of random tabs online, so I get what @mary_nelson71 is saying. I was trying to play full songs before I even knew how to hold a pick properly. Having a real lesson plan, even a boring one, would have saved me months of awful noise.
Totally get that. I did the same thing with guitar lessons online (jumping between random videos) before just buying a proper beginner book. The structure made all the difference, even if it seemed less exciting at first.