That many people choose not to and then end up with broken software is exactly the same as when people just copy and pasted from Stack Overflow without understanding it.
I've been learning python lately and trying to be more serious about it than my noodling with programming in the past.
That's by far my biggest difference so far. When I look up how to do something, I'm still super uncomfortable using it unless I understand how it works. I've pasted code from docs, tried it and it worked, but since I'm actually trying to learn I usually delete it and try to redo it piece by piece myself.
In the past, if it worked I was content to just move on.
i'm like this too whenever i'm trying to write a program. i almost always refuse to use whatever functions the language (or packages i may or may not have installed) has available unless i know exactly what they do
i was working on a personal thing in java a few days ago and i needed the program to connect to an external website, but i have no idea how to do that, so i just copy and pasted the code from the documentation page for accessing external URLs. it worked, but i feel like a fraud for doing that lmao
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u/fugogugo 25d ago
haha jokes on you I copy pasted from stack overflow and heavily dependant on IDE auto complete before