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Try writing code from scratch without using StackOverflow. If you need to know how to do something, use only language and API references (e.g., https://docs.pyt
by greenyoda 8y ago
Try writing code from scratch without using StackOverflow. If you need to know how to do something, use only language and API references (e.g., https://docs.python.org https://docs.python.org or https://developer.mozilla.org https://developer.mozilla.org). This will force you to understand how the code works, which is something that doesn't happen if you just copy/paste it.
- PaulHoule 8y agoI do this. I got pulled kicking and screaming back into Python two years ago and I have learned how to look everything up in the official docs. Other sources really aren't much easier to understand and they are often out-of-date or wrong. Back when I was doing mainly Java I would read the Spring and Maven docs on my tablet while spinning at the gym. Spring and Maven are both fundamentally simple if you start with the fundamentals, but if you are working on a system that was written by people who didn't know the fundamentals and just cut-and-pasted from SO you will go insane.