I finally stopped using online tutorials that just copy each other's bad habits

After 3 years of struggling with spaghetti code from following YouTube tutorials, I switched to reading official documentation and my Python scripts actually make sense now, has anyone else noticed how much bad advice gets recycled in those beginner coding videos?

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avery_foster3120d ago

oh yeah samw47, next thing you know they'll teach you to debug by sacrificing a goat to the spaghetti monster

samw4720d ago

Is it just me or do those "beginner friendly" tutorials always skip why something works and just show you the copy-paste version? I wasted months following a guy who chained like fifteen pandas operations together in one line and called it "clean code". Reading the actual docs felt like someone turned the lights on. I still check the official stuff first now, even for basic stuff.