I built a small project to practice programming basics instead of just doing tutorials
Posted by Any_Standard5811@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 2 comments
I’ve been learning programming for a while and I realized I was stuck in tutorial hell — watching videos and solving small exercises, but not really building anything on my own.
So I decided to build a small project just to practice the basics:
- working with data (arrays / objects)
- updating and managing simple state
- basic CRUD logic (add / update / delete items)
- filtering and organizing information
It’s nothing complex, but building it helped me understand things much better than just following tutorials.
The biggest thing I noticed is that even a simple project forces you to deal with real problems like structure, consistency, and edge cases.
Has anyone else found small projects more helpful than tutorials? What did you build when you were starting out?
nightonfir3@reddit
I feel like people comment in the sub over and over to make projects and for some reason people find it so hard to take the advice. Good on you for taking the step. My advice would be to just keep making whatever your interested in. You can also just keep adding on to what you have done. Most programs can be expanded to have more features for a very long time.
Any_Standard5811@reddit (OP)
Yeah that’s exactly what I realized too — tutorials make sense in isolation but building something small exposes all the gaps. I’m planning to keep iterating on it and slowly add more structure/features as I learn more.