> Too many programming books and tutorials are like “let’s build a house starting from scratch, brick by brick” when what I want to “here is a functioning house

> Too many programming books and tutorials are like “let’s build a house starting from scratch, brick by brick” when what I want to “here is a functioning house, let’s learn about it by changing something and then seeing what happens” That's how I taught myself how to program. I spent years getting good at writing small, simple, kinda crappy programs. Later on I learned I wasn't eligible for better software development jobs, because I had absolutely no fundamental knowledge about software design, programming languages, and computers. It was humbling walking out of a job interview realizing how much I didn't know because I never learned the boring way. Always read the whole manual. Always learn the fundamentals.