Re:Tired of Stack Overflow
by proverbialbunny on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @08:52PM
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It is a lofty goal. I've been told by coworkers, "No one can remember the entire language." and then went and did it anyways.
Yes, I still have to look up libraries for, eg pip, and I haven't gotten to the level of knowing every compiler error yet.
But it is very much a doable goal. Especially given that knowledge transfers between languages and libraries. Once you learn the thought process of the dev who wrote it, you can guess how they did or are going to do everything after that, creating a short cut where you can guess and usually always guess the right answer. It's much quicker than using SO.
Yes, I still have to look up libraries for, eg pip, and I haven't gotten to the level of knowing every compiler error yet.
But it is very much a doable goal. Especially given that knowledge transfers between languages and libraries. Once you learn the thought process of the dev who wrote it, you can guess how they did or are going to do everything after that, creating a short cut where you can guess and usually always guess the right answer. It's much quicker than using SO.