alt Hacker News> You learn a lot more by reading code than writing it.
Really? In my experience it's been the opposite. It's like how you can learn more about art by trying to recreate it than just looking.
> You learn a lot more by reading code than writing it.
Really? In my experience it's been the opposite. It's like how you can learn more about art by trying to recreate it than just looking.
a lot of people get stuck, or code up a naive brute force algorithm and call it a day, nothing intrinsically forces a coder that refuses to look at the work of others to write better code.