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I agree with you. Back when I was a little kid learning to code on the internet by myself, tutorials that I could easily understand and quickly use to build thi
by bogwog 5y ago
I agree with you. Back when I was a little kid learning to code on the internet by myself, tutorials that I could easily understand and quickly use to build things were important. Because without those, I would have probably given up.
Those stupidly bad PHP tutorials that show you how to concatenate a URL parameter to an SQL string were easy to understand, and taught me about everything from writing PHP/SQL, setting up a MySQL server, networking/opening ports, designing database tables, designing an application, and much more. The motivation I got from learning so much in so little time led me to keep learning new things, including learning and understanding why all that code I wrote when I was younger was so bad.
If those shitty tutorials get copy and pasted into production codebases, that's the company's fault for hiring a lazy/bad developer, and for not catching the vulnerability.