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As relatively young person I agree. Many people my age and/or younger expect quick results and don't really have the patience to see something through. But like
by racl101 9y ago
As relatively young person I agree. Many people my age and/or younger expect quick results and don't really have the patience to see something through. But like with any other facet in life, if people take shortcuts they totally deprive themselves of vital experiences that are necessary for them in the long run if they want to experience any decent amount of success. Especially if they are wishing to learn something for their career.
In other words, if your objective is to learn programming, how can you possibly hope to create or do anything more meaningful than trivial examples without challenging yourself to learn the environment nor learning howto import 3rd party software libraries so that you don't have to recreate the wheel?
It's part and parcel of not doing anything trivial.
Learning to be resourceful by visiting Q/A websites, forums, chats and asking questions, and trying things and failing and getting up and trying again just makes you better.
You learn more by failure and experimentation than by following an example to a T but never venturing outside the sandbox.
- edmundhuber 9y agoI'm not that old, 33, but I think I recognize that I wasted a lot of my youth being paralyzed by the thought of failing, when really it is the most successful people who start out by failing. A lot. It is important to get comfortable with failing, and to separate one's failure in trying something from the thought of personal failure. That is "I failed because I need to learn more," versus "I failed because I'm not good enough."
- veddox 9y agoExcellent life lesson! Never mind coding, that is one of the most important things we can teach our teenagers. (Not to deride coding, but you know what I mean.)
- racl101 9y ago> I'm not that old, 33, but I think I recognize that I wasted a lot of my youth being paralyzed by the thought of failing, when really it is the most successful people who start out by failing Well said. Describes me as well.