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Discussion on: Blogs are harmful and we are learning wrongly!

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Zohar Peled • Edited

Blogs are not tutorials, and reading blog posts is not the way to learn programming. It might be a way to get a better understanding of some feature or a process, or to get inspiration, but they are absolutely not the way to learn how to write programs.

As a blog owner myself, I've chosen to name my blog What the # do I know and the the way I describe it is "Some tips and tricks I’ve collected over the years working as a software developer." This is to show two things: 1 - I don't necessarily know what I'm talking about, and if you read something on my blog you should check it yourself if you want to use it, and 2 - It's a collection of tips and tricks, not a tutorial.

I'm not writing a tutorial, and I'm not writing official documentation. I'm writing things from my own perspective - about things I find interesting or ideas I have that I want to share with the world. I could easily bloat the content if I where to write a basic tutorial on my blog, but there are good reasons not to do that: First, there are plenty of tutorials out there already. Second, there's little to no room in a tutorial to bring in your own perspective, and Third, it's just boring stuff to write.