Most Tutorials Are Lying to You

The thing no one tells you is that most coding tutorials are written backward. Someone builds something, then rewrites the steps in reverse to make it look clean and linear.

But it's never like that when you're learning. It's messy. You get stuck. StackOverflow is open in 6 tabs. You don't even know what the thing is supposed to do anymore.

That's normal. Don't let a slick blog post make you feel dumb. It's all a highlight reel.