How To Learn Any Programming Language Fast

About a year ago I got really interested in React and wanted to learn it well. I could follow along with tutorials and build simple apps but didn't understand the fundamental underlying concepts well.
With a combination of common programming knowledge and Stack Overflow, I could build most things. But I couldn't explain what was going on under the hood. I wanted to go deeper into the language.
In this video, I'll share personally an approach I took, then, that really catapulted me ahead in my understanding of React.
If you are looking to go deeper into a programming language or framework or are looking to learn a new one fast, I think this tactic will help you greatly.
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[@igz]

This reminded me of the book Range by David Epstein, and especially the chapters on inefficient learning. Most effective learning is slow and difficult. Struggling to find the answer will retain more knowledge for longer. Even when you fail you get a deeper understanding of the how and why. It's often easy to take advice from the pros but not appreciate why it's given.

[@alno1]

The obstacle is the way. Actively looking to put yourself in front of challenges is the straightest path to growth. Especially with programming!

[@Sky-yy]

Hey travis, I'm at the same situation where I know react , but I always feel like if I follow some project tutorial I will get better but here you go with awesome content addressing the same topic. Keep making videos like this which actually solves people's problems. Already subbed, This travis media is different and it's gonna blow up. Would like to join your discord .

[@PeterMahama]

No fluff! Quality nuggets with each video I watch since I discovered your channel.

[@fabiomendes6901]

Hey Travis, Amazing tip! I am currently doing this, creating a Flutter app, trying to use some important concepts: navigation, state management, themes, testing, and shipping it to production, I know it's a lot but it's a simple app to show it to a possible interview, "hey this is an app I created from scratch and this is my storytelling", unfortunately I wasn't doing that before, I "know" many stuff but I only have courses' projects and I got addicted to it, comfort zone. It's pretty important in interviews this kind of background you mentioned!

[@gdj777]

Struggling = learning, If you don't give up

[@enpassant7358]

I have a project I did in PHP, an encrypted message board that encrypts and stores messages and if you enter the Secret Key you can view the message in plain text. I think I will reproduce that in Django. I think you are correct, it is time to do something rather than studying about it.

[@hajji384]

5:25 Struggling = learning, if you don't give up Step 1: Buy a course 1 or 2 or 3: - fundamentals [syntax ] - build the app - know the documentation Step 2: - come up with very complex project That may be takes several weeks or months to build - open vscode and start building it - go to documentation for concepts /problems

[@Salah-YT]

thx bro ill copy this to remind me all the time 🙂

[@Alphabet-ex9dv]

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[@jeffd6540]

Hi Travis, Nice video. I agree. Getting use to accessing, moving around in and understanding the documentation is a big asset. As I am still learning, I really enjoy looking into the docs and that develops into a quick go to reflex when you get hung up. Set up some bookmarks for your favorite places to go for references so you can access them quick.

[@abbcc555]

Very familiar situation except with a different outcome. Done multiple udemy courses, know the basics. Tried multiple own projects where I hit a brick wall and even after months of struggling I make no progress. Then I try another project and repeat and never manage to finish anything. I've come to the conclusion that if you don't have a mentor, like an actual human being you can ask questions from, then you can forget the whole thing. And no, stackoverflow does not replace an actual human interaction. I actually started a very similar project a few years back. The idea was to create pastebin clone but with a "menu" like you did. It was also done with react-quill. But yeah, that doesn't work either.

[@FedericoBejarano-fz8ot]

I really needed this. 10/10 advice. Starting a new project right away.

[@vishalbhati8974]

I think this approach works when trying to learn a framework but not necessarily the language itself

[@lwa.dev74]

Solid advice Travis… I’m definitely taking this on board…. 👨🏽‍💻

[@ByornJohn]

Hi Travis. I love your content mate. keep up the good work. I totally agree with your approach. I do the same in my career as a Snr. engineer. cheers.

[@CistiC0987]

I think the difference between people is so huge, but nobody's talking about it. I mean for some it takes just literally minutes or hours to learn something. And some like me spend difficult hours, days, months full of suffering. There is no key to that, everyone is different. Sometimes more struggle leads to better knowledge sometimes not. But struggle is inherent, one ought to love the struggle

[@MarkyGoldstein]

I actually learn better by reading a book (can be digital), using an AI assistant, building - compared to video tutorials. Also Trailhead style learning is good.

[@vfxart1994]

Nice Idea, please do a example video of a problem and how you approach to solve it using documentation what was your though process behind attacking a problem using documentation and how to be more efficient at it.

[@quelchx]

I have done this but slightly backwards. I have a frontend app that's has some pretty generic API calls (basic CRUD). Here and there I will fiddle with a different framework or language and write a very simillar backend that I have already done (example a express api that uses say prisma orm with a pg db --> gin backend that uses gorm with postgres)

[@livingwithanand]

Great video travis. Can you please make one video how to justify your fake experience in interview for people who have done the career change. Like how to get away with question like 1)tell me project you worked on.?? 2)Error you have faced?? 3) how you solved it.?

[@versystudio822]

Totally agree with the approach.

[@sabuein]

Thank you, Travis.

[@Salah-YT]

thank u so much

[@livingwithanand]

Is it good idea to go back and referring the udemy videos which you have watched but forgot some concepts or search online for solution. If you get stuck somewhere while making project?

[@-caesar3751]

What level of programming is needed for devops

[@YannMetalhead]

Good video!

[@csalsad937]

thank you

[@HrissW]

For how many months you've been just watching React courses? And how many months it took you to build that project? I can't even build a todo app, your app looks scary for me to build

[@socialgadfly5305]

I had the same experience, been trying to learn to code for sometime now, give up, try again, give up and try again. I know this is a job for me because I always come back like a bad abused spouse. It’s frustrating and constantly have to keep motivating myself, done the Udemy thing and it’s taught me a lot but nothing ever seemed to sink in and always had these “gaps in the wall, are bigger than the actual wall itself - feeling”. Until I started to realise I knew the language generally but didn’t know the language and it’s actual behaviour at run time. Then extrapolate from that those behaviours and appropriate use cases - ie functions declarations vs expressions vs arrow functions for example the different use cases and began to realise I’ve actually learnt programming but not really learnt JavaScript itself. I’m not even on react yet, dabbled with react and no stranger to it but it’s like a whole new world for me.

[@alinaser2332]

what can I say? Thank you so much sir ♥

[@hajji384]

6:15 for problems i go to stack overflow 😃 . Is that good or bad.?

[@TravisMedia]

All devs do it. Stack overflow is a great resource. The key is whether or not you can take that answer you find there, understand it, and tweak it to solve your own solution.

[@MrGinz4uuu]

With documentation do u mean looking at the course notes??

[@TravisMedia]

Meaning the actual documentation for the language, framework, or technology. In my example it was the React documentation. Like if I needed some info on a specific hook I would look at reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html. Many times it’s often just googling a feature you’re having trouble with and finding the most authoritative source/doc

[@MrGinz4uuu]

@@TravisMedia Thank you Travis appreciate it,,

[@Zero-dx6kr]

I think I’ll do a chat app.

[@LeonC0704]

what did you use to format the text?

[@TravisMedia]

react-quill package

[@LeonC0704]

@@TravisMedia Just made a book-writing management app and that's what. I used! so good.