Clarification: Just making fun of people(including myself) who watch shitty videos instead of official documentation.

  • lurklurk@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I really like the man pages, but they’re an encyclopedia, not a tutorial. Great for looking up specifics when you already have a foundation. Not so great when starting out

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      When I was first learning programming I had a teacher who insisted that the only resource we could was the Java docs.

      When you want to know what parameters you need to pass or what certain flags do, it’s a great resource. When you don’t even know how to iterate through an array, it’s not the first place to look.