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And of course, the question needs to be asked if becoming the best programmer you can be is the actual goal? There are a lot of developers much more succesful

• chii 9y ago
  If your goal was to make a working end product, then yes, it's not all about programming. But for somebody trying to learn programming, the other things like tools for building, packaging, and any other kind of polish is just a distraction. If you are learning math, using very long and arbitrary floating point numbers instead of nice, simple integers, would just add an extra level of cognitive overhead. But if you're building a house or bridge, the measurements needed rarely is nice, and real world issues overwhelms the simple model in a math question. But those are unimportant to learn until the simple stuff is learnt.