I don't think you need to necessarily choose one or the other. I've gotten a lot out of texts that give you practical assignments that get you thinking about wh

I don't think you need to necessarily choose one or the other. I've gotten a lot out of texts that give you practical assignments that get you thinking about what you just learned. I feel that learning in general is an iterative alternation between theory and practice. At the end of the day if you get both sides of that coin, you're doing fine.