alt Hacker NewsI tried to get started with programming with books. But I just didn't seem to be getting anything, I'd read the chapters and not really learn or understand it. What really worked was interactive education like Codecademy and some others I have forgotten the name of.
Reading a small paragraph and then immediately putting it in to action made everything clear far better than books did.
It's fascinating the different ways human minds work and learn. I'm the same way.
It also shows up in other areas like language learning where some people prefer classes and grammar books, and others prefer to just learn via exposure to a lot of content.