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Discussion on: How do you prefer to learn? Videos, Books, both?

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l222p • Edited

True! You're right.
I have seen videos teaching a lot of lies about frameworks/language/technology. This is complicated specially on new developers, they believe everything they read or watch. I am example about that. I didn't learn to code until 3 years after graduating! I mean, I thought I knew, but didn't. I wrote bad code following bad practices until I really investigate how to code.

Even today, I need to learn a lot about new concepts.

Have you seen examples about this in books? That's interesting, because I haven't

Very appreciated for your comment!

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scroung720

Sorry I didn't understand your question. Examples of what kind or about what?

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l222p • Edited

Ok, I'll change my question. You mentioned: " I believe video courses and books are valid but they failed very often".

I believe in books, everything they say hehe. Because is written by professional. Why do you say they failed? Any example?

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scroung720

I was thinking in how books get outdated easily. I believe books related to fundamental concepts are useful longer than let's say almost any book on any new technology. For example, pick any book for learning Ionic. Each major release of Ionic was a complete change all the old books are worthless, unless you are maintaining a legacy project which is highly improbable because some modules have become unsupported.

My recommendation is that you should not read books just because. Our time is limited, it is better to read books of theory or books that are widely recommended by the developer community.

I also like reading books about principles or engineering but I would never pick a book for learning a new technology.

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l222p

That's a great point of view. Thank you for sharing