I also agree with you @raven666. I always try to pass them on my own, especially the projects. But I guess watching tutorials on how to pass the lessons after getting stuck for quite a long time is still helpful or not that bad? I mean as long as I’ve put the effort to understand the lesson (like taking notes, rereading, reviewing), I allow myself to watch a tutorial if I get really stuck or I don’t get to understand the concepts fully. As some said fCC is not an all-in-one comprehensive JS course.
Tutorials or sessions like at the Bootcamp assist or fill in the gaps I have after going through the material by myself. Like after finishing the OOP, I went on to watch a session bout it. And it actually helped me connect the scattered dots I had in my head.
Sometimes actually they provide ways to better handle the course like doing the console log in the early parts. I believe I couldn’t highly think about the importance of experimenting with code stuff through maximizing the use of console log if I hadn’t watched the tutorials taught by Ramón.
I just think that they made those kinds of tutorials in the first place to just assist me in absorbing the lessons.
But I do think that watching a tutorial on how to solve the main projects or the mini-challenges (like the basic algorithm scripting) before passing them will certainly not help. I see them as assessment tests that evaluate my comprehension of the lessons that could be accompanied by watching some tutorials like the ones on the Bootcamp. So failing to pass them just means that I also fail to understand the lessons.
But after doing the projects on my own, I watch tutorials about them so I can learn better through knowing more effective and efficient approaches. So they’re not at all completely useless or unhelpful.
Anyway, this is just based on my experience 