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That senior dev told me to stop commenting my code - bad call?
My buddy is learning Python and he swears by watching tutorial videos instead of reading docs, says it sticks better. I've always been the opposite, I need to see the code written out and try it myself. He picked up loops in 2 days with one YouTube series while I struggled for a week using W3Schools. What's your take, is visual learning really faster for beginners or does it skip too much theory?
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charlie_stone7222d agoTop Commenter
Watching videos lets you skip the boring stuff but you end up missing half the theory behind it. Your buddy might learn loops in 2 days but he'll hit a wall later when he needs to debug something that wasn't in that YouTube series. Reading docs forces you to understand the logic instead of just copying what someone else types...
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felix47822d ago
I used to be a total doc reader too, always thought videos were a shortcut. But honestly watching my kid learn to code on YouTube completely flipped my view - he was building stuff in weeks that took me months to figure out from text. Sometimes seeing it actually happen just clicks faster, theory can come later when they need to fix something.
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