My experience is that those sites are best used understanding the languages themselves. There are other tutorials (like Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial) that wa

My experience is that those sites are best used understanding the languages themselves. There are other tutorials (like Michael Hartl's Rails tutorial) that walk through building an application from scratch while learning the language (or at least the framework.) I think some of these sites can do a much better job when it comes learning how to create projects, but I don't necessarily think that is what they were targeting originally.