I agree: programming is easier for me to learn via tutorials and reading examples and existing code.

The textbooks I still keep on my shelf are deeper than programming and are books I still didn’t reach the end of during university (abstract algebra, algorithms, compilers, statistical methods).

I find that when I make them available within eyesight, I will occasionally take them down and look in them for answers; I would not have asked myself those questions with the books not being present.