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The Lost Art that Will Take You From Beginner to Pro in Much Less Time
We need to rethink how we are teaching and learning programming.
Recent years have seen an explosion of new programming languages and platforms. Along with those, every few years a new generation of programmers is joining the community. Those new programmers read success stories, see a multitude of available tutorials, courses and how-tos and decide to join in, hoping that the available materials will help them reach the same level of success as their older colleagues were able to achieve.
And yet we are stuck. What exactly is happening?
We have an upcoming generation of developers who got completely engulfed in the tutorial culture. Developers who are experiencing high levels of anxiety due to impostor syndrome when they enter the job market. Developers not able to assess their own skill level and feel confident. Years spent learning should not become something that we will look at with regret some day. Yet this seems to be more and more common when we keep telling that tutorials are the main source of knowledge. Are we setting ourselves up for failure?
When beginners reach a certain level, they have no idea how to continue expanding…
