Learning to Code: Lessons from building a simple Rails app with Treehouse

Re:Learning to Code: Lessons from building a simple Rails ap... by hayksaakian on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @02:58PM (#5172879)

One note about copying code:

You'll learn syntax much faster if you hand re-type instead of copy pasting code.

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Re:Learning to Code: Lessons from building a simple Rails ap... by TDL on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @04:51PM (#5173496)

I have been writing code for only about 18 months now and re-typing ~85% of what I see has been incredibly helpful to me. I couldn't agree more with this point.

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Re:Learning to Code: Lessons from building a simple Rails ap... by alinajaf on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @03:02PM (#5172900)

Seconded. I've been programming for over a decade and this is still how I learn new languages/frameworks.

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Re:Learning to Code: Lessons from building a simple Rails ap... by jasonshen on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @05:39PM (#5173785)

Totally agree! I did mention "copying and pasting code" but really I only did that with specific bugs where I'd grab snippets of code to fix my problem.

Most of my coding was typed in by hand. I would have to pause the treehouse video, type in the code myself, and then continue the video. Sometimes this would result in my missing a comma or colon somewhere, but I agree that typing it feels like a better approach.

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