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Re:Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way by BvS on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @09:32AM (#1739299)
Same here. On the one hand it might be a good thing not to give the answers away so you also have to learn to search the web, use stackoverflow... but on the other hand it can be a huge time sink if you just want to know if your solution is correct.

Maybe some kind of forum in addition to the bok would be a good idea.

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Re:Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way by RyanMcGreal on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @09:41AM (#1739335)
Learning how to find answers to programming questions is by no means a time sink.
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Re:Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way by silentbicycle on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @09:49AM (#1739360)
It depends on the question, and if you know the right keywords to use. People starting off in programming and working through a book alone generally won't.

Of course, there's always irc.

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Re:Zed finishes Learn Python The Hard Way by BvS on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @07:20PM (#1741566)
Totally agree. Just trying out stackoverflow was probably worth it. Nevertheless when I thought I had the right answer I would have liked to compare it to other/the "right" solution. Also if I already spent a fair amount of time searching and had problems to phrase the questions the right way for Google (not knowing the terminology) some kind of help might have been a good thing.

On the other hand I might have used thatcher help too early...

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