This caught my eye "After pushing through a handful of the excellent 193P Stanford iTunes tutorials, I got a bit frustrated from not working directly on my product, so I just fired up xcode and began to develop it and worked out how to do things along the way."

I tend to pick up a book on subject X from time to time and getting bored after a while just repeating code. Fear of jumping in and doing things "the wrong way" is probably the reason. I tell myself that im going to come back to it; and never do.

Do anyone else have any experience on the subject? I have a nagging feeling that this is how most people actually ship product and would love some input.

(Now if this is to much off-topic, let's just downvote this)