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@Wisecrack it's really hard to teach experience, but that's a valiant effort
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Normally you don't learn to debug and read logs from other people.
Parsing error messages is learnt by googling all the errors and that way learning patterns related to classes of problems.
Debugging is learnt by doing. Everyone has his personal style and experience will let you know what to look at first. -
@Wisecrack
Good, good.
Stash your results away. Far away.
So no-one can ever find them.
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Profit?!
:D
Just kidding.
I think you would have gone and published them somewhere already.
Cheers mate -
@scor it's more like I wrote them down, each in an individual text document and neglected to put them all in the same folder because I figured it wouldnt realistically help any one.
i was helping a friend who just started learning how to code and i realized that tutorials don't teach you how to read error messages and how to debug. that's stuff we learn from people, it's tacit knowledge. that's crazy to me, because those are such essential skills to a dev and i think just self learning is not enough. maybe coding is even more of a socially dependent skill than i ever thought. looking at it that way, stackoverflow is a good example of that, I can't really imagine being a dev without the dev community
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