Comment by irrational
4 years ago
As a side gig I teach an intro to web development class online. Every semester I get students asking for help about why their code isn’t working. Nine times out of ten, they are trying to use some jQuery code they copied from stackoverflow because it is the accepted answer. They don’t yet know enough to recognize that it isn’t vanilla JavaScript (which they are required to use).
The best way to address these students is to ask them "Why do you think that this should work?"
What platform do you use to teach the course? I've been teaching an ML from scratch course for junior devs at my company and think it'd be useful for others.