3 Strategies to help you escape tutorial hell for good

Romaric Zounlome
5 min readDec 5, 2022
Photo by Jason Hogan on Unsplash

The Loop

So you want to learn to code but don’t know where to start. You find some YouTube videos to help get you started and you’re off to the races. The video teaches how to create a website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and you feel like you’re getting the hang of this coding thing! (Let’s goooo! 😎)

The tutorial ends and you feel pretty good about what you learned, but just to be safe you decide to watch one more tutorial to ensure you really understand what you’re doing. So you learn how to create a product landing page and you start to feel a little more confident about creating websites.

The tutorial ends and you feel pretty good, but just be safe you decide to watch one more tutorial to ensure you really understand what you’re doing. So you learn how to create a restaurant homepage and you start feeling a little more confident about creating websites.

The tutorial ends and you feel pretty good, but just to be safe you decide to watch one more tutorial to ensure you really understand what you’re doing…

This loop is also know as tutorial hell.

Tutorial hell is a metaphysical space where beginner programmers are sometimes consigned as a punishment for flying too close to the sun of learning. It’s called ‘hell’…

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Romaric Zounlome

Software Developer | Writer | Figuring life out one day at a time