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I would argue that most people can't, which kind of irks me that recommendations like this have been the status quo for quite some time. I think programmers in
by notus 7y ago
I would argue that most people can't, which kind of irks me that recommendations like this have been the status quo for quite some time. I think programmers in general over romanticize this way of learning.
- catacombs 7y agoThe best way I've learned C is to write tiny command-line programs for every possible task. Need to get the current path? Forget `pwd` or `cwd`, I'll write my own. Need to know the number of files in a directory? I'll write my own.
- serf 7y ago>I would argue that most people can't, which kind of irks me that recommendations like this have been the status quo for quite some time. It's not a static property we each have -- one can learn to learn differently. I would argue that sort of information gathering is vital to documentation-heavy professions, programming included. In other words : (imo) if you can't learn that way, you're doing a tremendous disservice to yourself by not looking for methods by which to learn how to learn that way.