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by beenBoutIT 2580 days ago
What kind of example does it set for FreeCodeCamp to rely on a site like Medium as opposed to making its own site and sharing that code on GitHub? Budding engineers don't need to rely on sites like Medium when they can put together their own sites and learn about SEO.
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That's a really good point, but that may not be ideal from a pure learning perspective.

Engineers are often subject to the whims of management, tight deadlines, dependency quirks, their own personal bias, and so on. A living example would showcase all of those things, but unless you annotate each line and comment excessively, you lose a lot of context.

It's also much easier to follow a tutorial than to dig through commit history and piece everything together yourself.