Unpopular opinion: I stopped trying to memorize every single coding rule and my projects got way better

For months I was stuck trying to perfectly remember every bit of syntax before writing a line. Last week I just started building a simple weather app in Python and looked up what I needed as I went. I used the requests library to pull data from a free API and figured out the JSON formatting on the spot. My code is messy but it actually works, which is more than I could say before. I think beginners waste too much time on theory before they even know what a real problem feels like. Has anyone else found that just starting to build something, even badly, was the real key to learning?

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richard_anderson13d ago

Ever notice how this applies to cooking too?

the_simon13d ago

Hell yeah, I've burned enough dinners to know that's true.

the_brian12d ago

Wait, that's exactly what he said.