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A guy at the library told me to skip the basics and it messed me up for months
He said, 'Just start with a framework, the fundamentals are a waste of time,' so I tried to jump into React without knowing plain JavaScript. I spent six weeks totally lost before I went back and learned variables and loops properly. Has anyone else had someone give them bad advice that set them back?
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jason_henderson16d ago
That advice is so backwards it hurts. Skipping basics is like trying to build a house without knowing what a hammer is. You end up just copying code you don't understand and everything breaks in weird ways. I saw a friend try to learn Django without any Python, and they couldn't even fix a simple typo. What other shortcuts have people tried to sell you?
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taylor1216d ago
That blog post about "learning by doing" totally missed how lost you can get without basics.
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