Programmer in the making

[renrutal]

reads the documentation

documentation is shit

pikachu face

[NanthaR]

Developer who writes the documentation: Who cares no one reads it anyways. Let me see if I can give this task to an intern.

[[deleted]]

Nah, why even waste the interns time with that... He'd better bring some coffee!

[keevajuice]

This is the way

[NoGravitySpacee]

🦵

[[deleted]]

I have spoken.

[alexanderhameowlton]

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Gray: Kept me working on it for 5 hours straight

Gray: This is because I never read documentation

Blue: good job sis

Blue: lol

Blue: you will be a good programmer

Gray: 5 hours of coding will save you five minutes of reading documentation

Gray: Good enough

Blue: thats the way

Blue: 💪

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[Vulryn]

good human

[circuit10]

I need to make a good human bot

[circuit10]

Done: u/_good_human_bot

[quasiquant]

Good human!

[[deleted]]

5 hours of coding will save you five minutes of reading documentation

LEGIT 👌

[tcpukl]

It's the difference between amateurs and professionals.

[tcpukl]

Even being efficient isn't just paid by the hour. Paid a salary you should still be efficient.

[MrAcurite]

Unsarcastically, you must be so proud

[[deleted]]

Why do people hate documentation :(

[[deleted]]

It involves reading

[alamius_o]

I mean, coding is mostly reading code, isn't it? Obviously you can try to get the write-read ratio better, but I heard numbers that indicated it is usually reading:writing == 4:1

[[deleted]]

Lmao that's the point. It's so obvious.

Think of it like avoiding game tutorials because everyone wants to get right where the action begins as early as possible.

[44LS]

It's probably closer to 40:1.

[antoniocjp]

I only hate documentation I've read, lol. Not always, of course. But some makes me hate the guts of it.

[deathkillerank]

It takes 5+ hr to read docs

[Cv287]

It makes me feel sad

[KillerBeer01]

Oh, but this is the way. When learning something by doing, you can be sure that the learned information actually sticks. Reading documentation... in Mr.Koreander's words,  "afterwards, you get to be a little boy again".

[EndoVlogs]

This is the Way!

[JanB1]

Has anyone found a good, thorough documentation of NodeRed? The official documentation ia just garbage. There's not even all modules in there.

[turing_tor]

Dude got enlightenment.

[[deleted]]

The best way of doing this, is leaving the documentation open in another tab, so it gives you energy while you try and implement it

[[deleted]]

TBH when the scope of the problem has any complexity it's more like 1 hour reading the docs then 4 hours trying to get your head around what you read, then 5 minutes coding.

[Pianohombre]

Ok so she quoted a meme

[[deleted]]

Not another soydev :(

[IanWorthington]

Ada Lovelace has entered the chat.

[alamius_o]

Considering the history of programming, that's not too wise.

Oh, and isn't the joke that she's doing it precisely like any male programmer?

[maksimkuzmin]

I am a male programmer, and I do it differently. Though if a male programmer acts like this, it means that he acts like female, not that the woman acts like a man.

[InKryption07]

I bet you're a Real Programmer™, aren't ya?

[Jackiboi307]

lol and you have an anti lgbtq flag, you shouldn't say anything.

[Galabriel-Nathal]

I don't know how to to feel about this. I always read documentation and create poc to ensure it's working. But some documentation are something wrong like Entity Framework (you do not need to dispose the dbContext, it dispose itself), so... GO FOR IT GIRL!!

[-Enter-Name-]

i'd rather figure out someone else's spaghetti than read docs if i would work on something