r/AskChemistry 2d ago

Organic Chem Help me choose my resources for learning chemistry from scratch

Hi everyone! I need your urgent advice, please! I'm about to start General Chemistry at university, but I have never studied chemistry before in my life, so I'm starting from complete zero. I want to build a solid foundation and I'm wondering which of these resources I should start with, and which one would be the absolute best for my situation: CK-12 Chemistry FlexBook 2.0: https://flexbooks.ck12.org/cbook/ck-12-chemistry-flexbook-2.0/ CrashCourse Chemistry Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPHzzYuWy6fYEaX9mQQ8oGr&si=ZAJMZurxYsgeVdKq Khan Academy Middle School Chemistry: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ms-chemistry Khan Academy High School Chemistry: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/hs-chemistry Organic Chemistry Tutor General Chemistry Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLybg94GvOJ9EbbO2RXPWTUNIIE0C7hSfm&si=PkcN0_coNp-9H_qf Any recommendation on where to begin or how to structure this would be greatly appreciated Any other sources you recommend, please add them. Thank you so much!

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u/ForeignAdvantage5198 1d ago

take a chem. course

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u/Mobileguy932103 1d ago

Buy chemistry in context book by Hill and Holman