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My early coding days were all about library books and trial-and-error
Honestly, back then, I had to borrow programming guides from the library and figure things out alone. Tbh, it was frustrating but made me really think through problems. Ngl, seeing beginners today with video courses and instant help forums is amazing, but part of me feels they miss that deep learning. I remember spending hours on a single bug that a quick search now solves in minutes.
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the_grant6mo ago
You mentioned missing that "deep learning" from the struggle, but I see it totally different. Having answers easy to find now means people can learn way faster and get to the actually hard stuff sooner. Getting stuck for hours on a simple syntax error didn't make me a better thinker, it just wasted my time. The goal is to build things, not to prove you can suffer through a bug.
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caseyfox5mo ago
Totally agree. Spent half a day once on a missing semicolon. That didn't teach me anything except to hate my computer. Getting past the dumb stuff faster is a win.
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barbara_patel236mo ago
So suffering builds character, but not code?
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