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I feel ridiculous saying this, but my secret is that I read the documentation of whatever tool I'm using. Google answers beginner questions so well that I never
by 88e282102ae2e5b 10y ago
I feel ridiculous saying this, but my secret is that I read the documentation of whatever tool I'm using. Google answers beginner questions so well that I never even thought to do this when I was first learning, and when googling started to fail me I would just fall back on the scientific method to figure out how a library worked. Perhaps it was a good exercise in critical thinking, but it was terrible for productivity.
- alistproducer2 10y agoYep, documentation and source when googling begins to fail.
- zo1 10y agoAnd occasionally you'll happen to come across a bug in a library you thought was beyond your understanding/comprehension.
- alistproducer2 10y agoI actually enjoy finding/fixing bugs in OSS. I strive to be more of an engineer than a developer. Learning how large projects are put together and maintained help make me a better engineer.
- buu700 10y agoI've found this to be the case much more often than "occasionally" since I've started habitually comparing third-party software's behaviour to relevant specs/documentation rather than assuming whatever the implementation does is correct. I've caught and reported several Chrome vulnerabilities this way just in the course of normal usage, and have to work around bugs in libraries that my code depends on (often involving poking around said libraries' code for insight into the problem) on a fairly regular basis.