{"id":802,"date":"2019-01-15T06:05:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T06:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buklijas.info\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2019-03-30T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T12:17:19","slug":"the-most-important-lesson-for-new-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buklijas.info\/blog\/2019\/01\/15\/the-most-important-lesson-for-new-programmers\/","title":{"rendered":"The most important lesson for new programmers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published on:<\/strong> 15.01.2019<\/p>\n

On my “Sending email from Python”<\/a> blog post what was cross-published on Medium<\/a> I got a comment asking how to send an email via outlook programmatically<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

My first reaction what that this is some troll or bot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So I did “Let me google that for you” answer<\/a> and later got “Thank you” response.<\/p>\n

That got me thinking, maybe he was not an internet troll, maybe he just does not know how to google<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It never crosses his mind that he can ask google for the answer.<\/p>\n

Why I was thinking that somebody was trolling me<\/h4>\n

I am an experienced (15+ years) software developer, I am experienced because I know that when I do not know something first I google it, that I search on youtube and the last resort is to ask StackOverflow<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This is what professionals do, they do not ask questions on random blogs in hope that somebody will respond.<\/p>\n

Learn how to google<\/h4>\n

For beginners learning to code, best what you can do for yourself (and other) is to learn to google what you do not know<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Today it is easier to learn coding than 20 years ago when I was starting.<\/p>\n

At my time the only thing that you had was a book (if you were lucky).<\/p>\n

Today there are much more opportunities to learn<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  • you have Youtube today what is the largest free video learning tool<\/li>\n
  • google for asking<\/li>\n
  • and StackOverflow communities where you can ask questions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Be aware that you should not ask a question specific to your particular coding problem, just bring it to a more abstract level<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Tips on googling<\/h4>\n

    From my experience, it is important to know which keywords to google.<\/p>\n

    But if you do not know keywords you can always start with “how to …..”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Any action is better than no action<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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