Why do I always get errors when I am trying to learn something by following YouTube tutorials like I follow every single step, write the same code but I get errors. I feel like giving up sometimes

Language & framework versions is the answer. If you were actually looking for one.
That’s why it’s best to read the documentation on its own or as well as the video.

Because, YouTube code doesn't work by default.

Video tuts are useless and time consuming, I doubt anyone needs to watch the video start to finish, and you can't skip to the bits you actually need since you don't know where the "instructor" for lack of a better word🙃 is going to mumble it out between all the "errrr" and "unmmm" and "oooh that's not right" moments.

I'm not a fan of this style, if it wasn't clear.

@C0D4 mostly agree with this. Obviously it depends on learning style.

Are you just starting out with programming in general or are you trying to solve a specific problem?

@spaulder I am trying to learn android. Just started a few days ago. Any suggestions for good resources?

@akacodegenie You might be better off finding a good book and doing the exercises. LibGen is a great place to get free PDFs.

@akacodegenie

If you're only just starting out, try the courses, scroll down a bit for the beginner ones.

https://developer.android.com/cours...

@akacodegenie udacity videos and (if you are indian) slidenerd's youtube playlist would be a good place to start( i said indian coz he makes a very fake and irritating accent that only we can understand i guess, but otherwise his content is good)

Also, don't bother with kotlin at first if you already know java. Its an unpopular opinion, but it will definitely help as android concepts alone are confusing enough already

Another word about android. This whole post is going to he a norm if you give it a few months. Android is fast paced, getting updated with new shit and depreciating old stuff every second, so expect a lot of code on the internet to be unusable. Try avoiding the vids and articles from 2016 and below if you can, maybe even 2017. Developer docs and commonsware books seems to be the only places with latest updated content

TIS LIFE.

>90% of programming is debugging 💔

@KimberlyTheGeek “works on my machine”

@TitanLannister Thanks. Will check the mentioned resources

My 2 cents are to go through the documentation and follow that. Will learn a lot more through following the docs!