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I thought copy pasting from Stack Overflow was fine until a helper function broke my whole quiz app 2 weeks into learning Python
Half of r/learnpython says never paste code you don't get, the other half says you'll never finish anything that way, so which one got you past the beginner wall?
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simon_sanchez5823d ago
Dude, the whole "never paste code you don't get" thing is half right but you're missing the middle path. Nobody said you have to understand every line before you run it. The problem isn't pasting, it's pasting and never going back to read it. My move early on was paste the thing, get it working, then spend ten minutes pulling it apart line by line to see what each piece does. Stack Overflow answers are basically free lessons if you actually stop and read them. So the wall breaks when you use pasted code as a teacher, not a crutch.
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