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jestdotty5603297dI don't wanna read the explanation I only wanna see the code
the words literally confuse me. this might just be a problem in rust though -
Bubbles6612297d@jestdotty well I'm staring at a wall of text that I am really fucking sure can be less wordy for some C networking code. I'm just frustrated cause half of it I know from other languages but some I don't that's C specific so I'm caught in this line of I feel like I have to read it but it ends up for the most part being shit I already know and they're taking forever just to show me what I'm there for.
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cho-uc1884297dSame, I skip the whole bunch of paragraphs and only focus on the code.
If I don't understand the code, then I search the explanation in the paragraphs.
I know this is not a good practice... ☹
I also don't know if it's because of my autism that I am bad at R/W texts but very good with symbol/number -
typosaurus12160297dSo you end up with no knowledge of design choices at all. You won't catch dem "drift"
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jestdotty5603297d@retoor no one ever describes design choices
also I do sometimes read the code and if it confuses me read the text. that doesn't help more than half the time though. generally I need to hunt for other examples of the same code
incidentally, this is also how I learned math. never paid attention in class, just guessed what it was doing from looking at enough problems -
jiraTicket2271297dI jump between code and explanation
Yes I wanna see a bit of code first, then I’ll check if the code matches the genral idea, then resume reading code, the might get confused by a code detail and find it is clarified in the explanation…etc -
Bubbles6612296d@cho-uc @jiraTicket code first then seek answers to questions is kinda how I've been making it work.
Am I the only one that likes to see the code before the explanation when trying to learn something??
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