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Vent: Every tutorial says 'just copy this code' but never explains why
I've been learning Python for about 3 months now, and it drives me crazy how many beginner tutorials just tell you to paste a block of code without saying what each line does. Yesterday I followed a Flask tutorial that had 30 lines of setup, and the guy literally said 'don't worry about this part, just copy it.' Like, how am I supposed to learn if I skip the whole foundation? I ended up spending 2 hours on Stack Overflow figuring out what 'app.route' even means. If you're making content for beginners, shouldn't the point be to teach, not just show? Has anyone else found a tutorial series that actually breaks things down line by line?
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palmer.henry22d ago
Look, copying code is how a lot of us actually learn though. You figure out what the stuff does later when you break it yourself.
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sean_foster5222d ago
Yeah @palmer.henry I get that copying can teach you something later but that's like giving someone a car and saying "figure out the engine when it breaks down." If you're gonna call it a tutorial then actually tutorial-ize it, you know? Where's the middle ground between "copy this" and a 400 page manual?
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