Is there a place for learning through the documentation of the language itself?

Question

Python

Will it be possible to learn to code from scratch and understand something as soon as by reading the Documentation + practice, for example, through the python 3 documentation, and is it possible to build some kind of base? I used to have the experience of such training when I didn’t watch videos or read books (I don’t like them) I just took the documentation and immediately started picking the code, changing this and that didn’t work yet, but then it was not a programming language (similar) . Therefore, I still want to understand which way to go. Now I watch courses and everything works out, I do all the tests and assignments, but for some reason I think that this is not mine, and the old learning experience tells me that it is better to learn through the documentation of the programming language itself, and then learn the libraries also through their documentation , but I do not know how effective it is for my development. Those who fumble in programming,

Answer 1

There is a difference between "grabbing" and "learning". The first is, roughly speaking, to learn the syntax, the rules for calling the API, to figure out what each of the described functions does and returns.
But the second is to understand why the tool under study is implemented in this way, how this or that implementation affects efficiency, how something can be tuned, where which tool is better to use, how they are interconnected, etc.
"Grab" is easy. Courses, videos, documentation .....
"Learning" is difficult. It doesn’t work quickly, it requires “digesting” a really large (and yes, often boring) amount of information, understanding connections and much more. There is nothing better than books so far, mankind has not come up with.
For "picked up" - each new fact is a discovery. For the "learned" - just a new explainable link in the chain of previously known facts.
True, many "picked up" think that they "learned". And what is worse, they are actively campaigning for it, and as a rule, aggressively. Well, what to do, the Dunning-Kruger law cannot be repealed.