The Fastest Way to Get Good at Coding

Key Takeaways

The fastest way to improve is to build things that are slightly above your current skill level. So, follow tutorials to learn a concept and then immediately build something similar without watching that [music] tutorial. And that's where real learning actually happens. You start small, finish everything, and a single completed project will teach you much more than five half-finished ones that you just never got through. The idea here is that when you work on something that's a little bit more complicated than you currently know, you have to learn something new. You have problems, you have bugs, you have issues that you run into, and you have to actually use your critical thinking skills to find the solution, look up a particular piece of syntax, find a module you need to bring [music] in, and it's not just you watching someone else code or doing something you've done a hundred times before. You're actually challenging yourself, which is personally how I got good at code. And I should clarify that I mean slightly beyond. Don't go pick something super, super complex that's going to be discouraging, [music] but you want to give yourself a challenge.