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Shoutout to the guy at the Austin meetup who said skip tutorials and just build a broken calculator
Six months back an old dev named Raj at a beginner meetup in Austin said the fastest way to learn is to build something small and ugly, not watch more videos. So I built a calculator in Python that couldn't handle decimals for 3 days. Then I hit a wall on dividing by zero and had to read the docs myself instead of pausing a video. Two sides here. Raj's way felt awful for the first week but I actually remember what I typed. The video way feels cozy but I forgot half of it by the next day. Which camp are you in, build first and break stuff, or learn the basics before you touch a keyboard?
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