>This means no 5000 esseys. I generally tell people looking for my advice, engineering is a reading job. Until humanity figures out how to transfer ideas with

>This means no 5000 esseys. I generally tell people looking for my advice, engineering is a reading job. Until humanity figures out how to transfer ideas with something other than characters, you're going to have to read. A lot. For example, one quick tip I give is just read the entirety of anything you encounter. The whole error message + stack trace. The whole document (page) about the package that contains the function you're after... the whole type and its functions. It's also how I often mark people a "No" for interview -- when they obviously are not reading the error (with line number!) of their non-compiling code...