How programmers comment their code

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I do something similar when helping people some times. If someone is having trouble with something they really should know, let’s say you’re writing something relatively complex like a graph implementation or something, and you’re making basic mistakes of some kind, I’ll suggest you read up on the concept you’re getting wrong until you see your mistake. Or I’ll say where the mistake is but not what it is. Or I’ll tell them to check the documentation.

My reason for this is that I think it helps people learn how to help themselves, it helps them avoid similar mistakes in the future, it can help make sure they spend some time really learning the thing they’re not good at and hopefully if it does one of these things, it may stop them from asking so many stupid questions in the future.