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"How can I learn an instrument without listening to music" "How can I learn to write stories without reading books?" Have you considered just reading the code?
by nn3 6y ago
"How can I learn an instrument without listening to music"
"How can I learn to write stories without reading books?"
Have you considered just reading the code? It's all available. Best way to learn is to look what the masters are doing.
And even complex software is typically just a collection of simple things together.
IMHO one of the biggest failing of many CS courses is that they never get above toy software. Would be much better to at least once dive into some production software and try to figure something out in a real code base.
- krapht 6y agoReading the code of a piece of production software is a poor way to get understanding of the fundamentals of a strange topic. It's really inefficient in terms of "understanding" per hour; the student has no context as to why certain choices were made for what reason, just that they were made.