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My coding bootcamp buddy told me to skip the fundamentals
Last year a friend from my bootcamp told me to skip learning HTML and CSS properly and just jump straight into JavaScript frameworks. I followed his advice for about 3 months and ended up completely lost anytime I had to style a page or fix a layout. Spent 2 weeks re-teaching myself the basics before I could even understand what my own code was doing. Has anyone else been given bad advice that set them back instead of helping them move forward?
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abby18923d ago
My buddy Sean over there nailed it. That centering a div joke hits way too close to home because I literally spent 45 minutes trying to figure out why my flexbox wasn't working last week. The whole "skip the basics" mindset is like building a house on a foundation made of toothpicks. You might get the walls up fast but the first real wind is gonna knock everything over. I saw so many people in my bootcamp group who jumped straight into React and then couldn't even tell you what a block element was or how the box model works. They ended up more frustrated than if they just took the time to learn proper CSS from the start.
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Bet your bootcamp buddy still can't center a div without stack overflow.
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