> Or would I have been able to learn even more and faster, since I wouldn't have been all alone banging my head against some trivial problem for weeks? This wa

> Or would I have been able to learn even more and faster, since I wouldn't have been all alone banging my head against some trivial problem for weeks? This was my experience. I’m not a programmer but I enjoy playing around with Python. I work with it a lot more and make far more complicated programs now because I don’t have to spend half an hour trying to find a solution to my problem on StackOverflow. The issue I found is that I don’t bother trying to build anything on my own anymore, so even though I’ve learned a lot about designing programs, my knowledge of Python has probably actually declined.