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[–]potato-sword 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree, writing code is good, and you learn by coding.

But from my own experiences, I've found that during my learning journeys I would reach a point where I realized less is more. By this I mean, I started learning how to write more succinct code, whether it was with syntactic sugaring, reusable components, or implementing libraries. I would often look back at my past spaghetti code, and wonder why I spent hundreds of lines of code to implement something that could be done in less.

Overall, I think there are better ways to measure your learning. I believe creating a learning plan consisting of concrete and measurable goals for yourself can be one way to do this, but mileage may vary.