Learning to Program

Tutorials

The websites I have mentioned so far are great for expanding your general knowledge, but tutorials are great for learning how to do a specific task. For instance, I learned how to create Grunt tasks by reading the “Getting Started” tutorial on http://gruntjs.com/. Online tutorials range in quality from excellent, to useless, to harmful. I have followed online tutorials that taught me how to do things in a terrible way. I structured a lot of data in strings instead of objects or arrays because I read a tutorial that told me to do it that way. The moral of the story is to be careful about tutorials that come from a source you don’t know. However, a good tutorial can be an amazing resource to help you take your programming skills to the ...