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A coworker said 'just read the docs' and I finally get why I sucked at coding
Last Tuesday my coworker Dave watched me paste the same error message into a search bar for the fifth time and told me to just read the official docs instead. I told him docs are boring and hard to follow but he pulled up the Python page for lists and made me read the first three paragraphs out loud. Turns out the answer I spent 45 minutes hunting for was sitting right there in plain English under the examples section. I felt like a complete idiot. Now I spend 10 minutes reading docs before I touch any forum or video. It's slower at first but I've cut my debugging time in half over two weeks. Does anyone else fight the urge to Google first or is that just a bad habit I need to break?
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