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Discussion on: What nobody tells you when you decide to learn how to code

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E. Dunham

Hmm. I was going to complain about clickbaity titles on old news, but then I realized -- this is stuff that everybody tells you after you learn to code. Or, everybody says it into their online spaces, and you only have cause to enter those spaces after you get far enough into programming to ask the questions that lead you there.

But before you learn to code, you might not have been exposed to the "how do I do this thing where I have no idea where to start? Well first let's find someone else who did it, probably online, and see what they have to say so we can skip to the second level of newbie mistakes instead of making the first ones..." paradigm. So pre-"programming mindset", people won't necessarily be exposed to all the advice that other recent novices have written.