I’m so sick of these “build x in x minutes/lines of code” - they’re cancerous.
These contribute to the myth that one can become a good software developer by taking a few coding classes. You need hands on experience over some length of time, but ten minutes sure as hell isn't enough time.
Experimenting is great, but without including fundamentals, such as testing, compilation, environment management, etc, you’re really just “building” one small part of an application that runs locally.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 15.1 ms ] threadThese contribute to the myth that one can become a good software developer by taking a few coding classes. You need hands on experience over some length of time, but ten minutes sure as hell isn't enough time.
Experimenting is great, but without including fundamentals, such as testing, compilation, environment management, etc, you’re really just “building” one small part of an application that runs locally.
Spam.
No one said you're done after doing one ten minute tutorial.
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