My biggest mistake when I started coding

Say, Yes to documentations & No to tutorials(not always)!

When I started coding, I would first check youtube for the tutorial of the stack I wanted to learn and then start to code. I would rarely check the documentation. When I was studying at integrify. I was working mostly on React, so youtube tutorials were fine and I was able to do the task given to me.

After I joined digia for a internship. I was given a task to make use of piwik-react-router npm package in the application. So, I did what I was always doing, check the youtube tutorials if anybody has done it already or stackoverflow. Ofcourse I didn’t find anything.

This was the first point, when my senior developer helped me how I should proceed and lern to read documentations. At that point I realized that, as a developer you will not always work on the stack you are comfortable with. You need to work on different stacks, for whome youtube tutorials may not be avaialabe. So, the documentation is your only friend.

After, that I always read the doucmentation, whenever I am trying to learn something new and if the documentation is a bit complicated, then I try to look for tutorials.

Ofcourse there are lots of mistake I have made in the beginning, but I think this was the biggest of them all.