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for people self learning there are a lot of resources to solve problems / make things work / advance along the "correctness" spectrum, but the resources for beg
by aaavl2821 9y ago
for people self learning there are a lot of resources to solve problems / make things work / advance along the "correctness" spectrum, but the resources for beginners around deployment, testing, devops and design / refactoring best practices are not quite as good, at least from what ive seen.
reading and understanding stack overflow examples or the docs is one thing: you can know what the code does and play with it yourself to get the right answer. but when i'm trying to refactor my spaghetti code because i had no idea how confusing stuff gets when programs get bigger or how to structure stuff, or when im trying to figure out the best way to configure or deploy an app or manage dependencies, the only resources are often blogs -- which are generally amazing and which im very grateful for, but can have conflicting advice, be tough to understand, assume knowledge that i dont have. from my limited experience even the docs are not that helpful when it comes to stuff like how to scale or structure apps, as they assume a lot of knowledge and arent as thorough as when describing core functionality. having a human being help wade through this would be super valuable
not saying im not incredibly grateful for all the blogs and online resources out there, the educational resources around software are incredible and ppl are so generous w their knowledge and time. just trying to say that for ppl like me who are just getting comfortable with docs, googling, stack overflow etc but dont yet feel they can manage an app "in the wild" yet, this would be a great resource