My cousin told me to skip reading the full docs and just jump into Python tutorials

I figured he knew what he was talking about since he works in IT, but now I'm two weeks in and constantly hitting basic stuff I should have learned upfront, anyone else get burned by bad shortcut advice?

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fiona_young27d ago

Wait, did your cousin actually read the docs himself before telling you to skip them?

amy_foster7927d ago

Have you tried going back to the docs now and just reading the parts that keep tripping you up? I did the same thing when I started learning SQL years ago, skipped the basics to get coding faster. I ended up spending even more time unlearning bad habits and looking up stuff I should have known from the start. Honestly, taking a weekend to skim through the official Python docs and focusing on data types and functions helped me more than a dozen tutorials. Better to pause now and patch those gaps than keep digging a deeper hole.