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Nested Software • Edited

Hehe :) I have actually come around to a style that is more similar to yours than how I started. If I'm learning something, I tend to focus on solving problems and letting that drive my learning. So instead of just reading a lot up front, I do just enough reading to get a problem solved, then I see whether I need to read anything to solve another problem, and so on (I call this PDL in the article as a shoutout to TDD).

It's easy to get carried away and write too much - there were finer points I wanted to make that I had a hard time throwing away - but I tried to at least make the paragraph headers clear so that people could skim those and get the idea.