What was/is your favourite learning experience?
The best teacher (besides google) for your language of choice?

Was it a book? a video series? an instructor? A person? A mentor? Your cat? Maybe dissecting someone else's code...?

Mine is laracasts.com You're welcome Jeffrey.

Reading C code of open source software. (Linux/OpenBSD kernel and various other little tools)

www.learncpp.com

Teached me a lot about C++ and general programming concepts, probably more than you would learn in the college.

Favourite learning experience was reading Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide To Functional Programming. Almost fried my brain by thinking in a completely different way than I was used to (OOP), but it was a really cool experience.

Best C# teacher definitely Jon Skeet, learned so much from that guy's writing.

Other than that I learned what NOT to do by working in plagued legacy projects, writing good code is inevitable when you avoid writing shitty code.

@RocketSurgeon I had a teacher like that way back in 96 lol

Basically he realized that the best skill you could learn in this new "information age" is how to teach yourself how to learn software really fast and how to do searches.

Every week we learned a new piece of software in front of us and has us participate. He knew nothing and just talked through his thinking as he went on, demonstrating how to teach yourself.

Probably why i work for myself.

I am lone wolf so I usually learn from my mistakes.
It all depends how fluent I am in tech stack.
Beginner I usually copy paste and look the way people code in particular framework/language, best practices etc.
Advanced I clone / make dependencies against different projects and libraries and combine them together.
Usually they don’t want to pair with each other so I force them to do so.

W3schools.com was my beginning adventure, damn in the old days we didn’t had interactive lessons like today.. feels old

https://doc.qt.io and https://developer.android.com/docs/ 🙃

Other than that... I don't know, i usually use a whole lot of sources when learning new tech