Definitely. Not only is it worth doing the wrong thing first to understand why its wrong, its also often worth revisiting after you have more experience with th

Definitely. Not only is it worth doing the wrong thing first to understand why its wrong, its also often worth revisiting after you have more experience with the other alternatives. Especially when it comes to programming paradigms and stuff like 'best practices'. Theres a lot of cargo-culting in programming culture, and you really shouldn't take it as dogma.