Comment by jncfhnb

Nah. We’re literally on “hacker news”. Frankly a lot of the hacking ethos has always been cobbling stuff together building upon the works of others that you don’t really understand.

Learning by getting something to work and tweaking it is massively more effective than grinding against a wall of impassable errors while you’re just trying to get started. You don’t become a good programmer by reading a book.