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Shoutout to the person who told me to stop copying code line by line
Ngl, I was stuck for 2 weeks trying to build a simple weather app in Python. I was just copying each line from a tutorial without thinking. Then my friend in Chicago asked me to explain what the 'requests' library actually did, and I totally blanked. That's when I realized I wasn't learning, I was just typing. Now I try to write each function myself first, even if it's wrong. How do you guys make sure you're actually understanding the code you're working with?
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henderson.oscar27d ago
Is copying code that bad though? Sometimes you just need to get something working first.
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mason.brian23d ago
Funny how this happens with everything, not just code. You can follow a recipe exactly but still not know how to bake. The real trick is messing it up on your own first, like trying to make pancakes without looking. That failure forces you to see what each part actually does, which sticks way better than perfect copying.
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