---
title: "Stop Watching Tutorials. Do This Instead"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-watching-tutorials-do-this-instead-h5l9dmth6
source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYK5R5xJlM4
type: video:youtube
source: "YouTube"
published: 2026-03-12T12:17:12.720Z
updated: 2026-03-12T12:17:28.860Z
tags: ["github", "vscode"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 147
comments: 15
language: en
---

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# Stop Watching Tutorials. Do This Instead

**[YouTube](https://daily.dev/sources/youtube)** · 4 min read · 147 upvotes · 15 comments

## Summary

Advice for beginners on how to learn programming effectively. Key points: pick one learning path and stick with it, use free resources like YouTube, freeCodeCamp, or CS50, choose VS Code as your IDE, and avoid relying on AI tools until you understand the basics. Also briefly promotes Orchids 1.0, an AI app builder that supports multiple project types and lets you bring your own API keys.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYK5R5xJlM4>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ahorts** · 18 upvotes

> Never look back. Suffered from this. Hopping from language to language without having any sort of solid experience will amount to nothing.

**@confidentcoding** · 4 upvotes

> Solid recap. Things are certainly shifting and changing, and once the dust settles, I think it will be a net positive. The industry is cramming LLMs into every nook and cranny right now, but it's excessive and we're already seeing a lot of backlash around this, from burnout to incidents. And junior developers are skipping over some pretty essential skills around troubleshooting and debugging, which normally would have been derived from the late night sessions with no LLM to ask. I am starting a course around that exact idea ([confident-coding.com](http://confident-coding.com)), which could...

**@ghost** · 2 upvotes

> I'm going to watch the video but the AI recap is really funny
> " ... and avoid relying on AI tools until you understand the basics. Also briefly promotes Orchids 1.0, an AI app builder ..."

**@zygfrydchamczyk** · 2 upvotes

> Clickbait = downvote

**@chris302** · 1 upvotes

> Thanks a lot for that roadmap and the advice, i needed some structuring to my learning journey 😊

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