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Adam Nathaniel Davis

The former learn the concepts upfront, the latter by encountering them in existing code.

Bingo. Whenever I'm introduced to a new concept in coding, I'm inevitably confronted with some sort of online documentation. And that's great. So I read through it for about... 30 minutes. That's usually sufficient to give me a (very high level) understanding of what the concept does. But if I'm to truly learn the concept, I need to quickly transition into trying to play with it. I gotta install the package or try to use it in some existing code. I have to find a way to make it useful. Because, if I don't, it just sits in my brain as some sort of esoteric, abstract concept.