This is just a public service announcement to find some fellow coders and meet up with them for a coding session!
Avi Flombaum has a great list of reasons not to code alone:
There are a few reasons you shouldn’t learn alone—even if you’re learning online.
1. You learn by teaching.
Consider the Protégé Effect: students who teach other students tend to score higher and do better than those learning just for themselves. Forcing yourself to explain a concept is simply the best way to internalize it (and as a bonus: you’ll feel good about helping someone else!), but you won’t have the opportunity if you’re going it alone.
2. Sometimes we just need some help.
There’s an educational benefit to sometimes toughing it out and pushing yourself to figure something out rather than asking for immediate help. But you’ll reach a point of diminishing returns, when it makes sense to ask a teacher or turn to a fellow student to help get you to that aha moment. You can’t really do that if there’s no one to turn to.
See more of his answer here: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-worst-way-to-learn-to-program
Ok, so what can you do to make the all important step of not coding alone?
1. Find other people in your area via Meetup or just reaching out on Facebook.
2. Join a slack channel dedicated to code!
3. Try pair programming.
Seriously, I can’t stress this enough. We need help, and the community is a great way to reach out, meet new people and learn A LOT! It’s not a sign of your inability to learn, it’s just the process of getting stuck and needing a new approach to get out.
Until next time!
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