Agreed - you need to experiential context to grok the concepts about best practices. Otherwise, it is just cargo-cultism. Most the great programmers I know lear

Agreed - you need to experiential context to grok the concepts about best practices. Otherwise, it is just cargo-cultism. Most the great programmers I know learn by working on increasingly more complex projects and then deep-diving into the details whenever they come across something they don't know. They make this process move faster, not by doing tutorials and writing code from scratch (after the initial bootstrapping of learning a new language/framework), but by reading code from others, especially successful project. And again diving into to understand the WHY behind the implementation and this reinforce the choice and knowledge of the HOW.