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Shoutout to the person who told me to stop copying code line by line
I was stuck for a week trying to build a simple calculator, and a friend in my coding group said I'd learn faster by typing everything out myself instead of just pasting. What's the first project you built where that 'type it, don't copy it' rule finally clicked for you?
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hernandez.morgan8d agoTop Commenter
Honestly that advice gets overhyped sometimes. Muscle memory from typing only gets you so far if you don't understand the logic behind it. The real trick is figuring out WHY the code works, not just how to type it.
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cameroncarr8d ago
Yeah, hernandez.morgan has a point about needing the "why." For me, the typing thing forced me to slow down and actually read each line. My first real project was a to-do list, and typing out the event listeners made me question what each part was for, which led to looking stuff up. That's where the learning happened.
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