The term tutorial hell can familiar to many people. It is specially used in the field of programming among developers. I believe people get into this trap in other areas of skills as well, like graphics designing, video editing, learning a new language, and even cooking.
You completed a tutorial or a course, great. Now let's do another one, and another one after that and you go down this rabbit hole that you can't escape.
Tutorial Hell is the phase of a learner where a person is highly dependent on tutorials and remains that way for a vast period of time.
Remember the time when the teacher was explaining a certain topic and you felt like they all made sense at the time and when you finally had to do on your own you realize you know nothing at all. It's the same thing with the online courses and tutorials that you find on Youtube, Udemy, or anywhere else. It's easy to follow along, but when it's done you're left with no creativity or inspiration. Thus you go for another tutorial because you think that the previous one didn't work out for you.
It's bad enough that you get lured into advertising such as "From Zero To Hero", "From Begineer To Mastery", "Build an app like Uber", "Learn to draw this Professional Character". The problem here is you do not get past the knowledge you're offered in the course. If you find yourself you cannot build or make something and vaguely remember what you learned in all those tutorials, then you didn't do it right. You didn't do your own practice.
I'm not against tutorial or anything of that sort. Tutorials are a great tool. You can grasp a large amount of information through them. You can learn how things work, and learn how to use basic tools. In programming, you can learn about syntaxes, variables, basic loops, function, objects classes, and kinds of stuff like that. While you're at it build the dreaded ToDo list app and even throw in a "HELLO WORLD". However, don't limit yourself there, and build some cool projects, make some mistakes, explore documentation, ask on StackOverflow. Then rinse and repeat.
You're never going to learn and have that GOTCHA moment if you're spoon-fed every time.
Similarly in graphics designing such as Photoshop or Illustrator, there are many tools. You may know how each and every tool work and there are 100s of them, but you'll never create anything extra-ordinary if you do not start using the tools on your own. As you explore around you'll realize how you can use different tools and even combine them to create amazing effects.
It's the same with other skills as well unless you get your hands dirty you're never improving.
I fell into this trap as well. I did several courses on programming in Udemy but I couldn't build anything on my own. My Dad kept telling me just to apply for a job, you might just get hired. I thought I wasn't good enough but did what he said. Well, I didn't get the job, but I did land an intern. It's there where I learned so many things because I had to do them and no tutorial is going to teach me how to solve that specific problem to that specific situation. We just get a few minutes of guidance then that's it.
The point here is to put yourself in a situation where you need to be creative and have to use your problem-solving skills. Sure you'll spend hours stuck on a certain problem or a bug, but you'll feel really great after you passed that.
My single advice would find a good tutorial, follow it from start to end. Please don't rush. Then start building/creating cool things.
Have a good day and be safe.
