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by croo 653 days ago
I went from zero to hero with phind.com from last year September because my role change required it.

It was a great experience as I usually knew what I wanted to do but did not know how to do it. So I just asked for solutions as I would from a junior then reviewed the responses and learned a ton.

There were more complicated things where a long blog post helped much more when learning about multiprocessing eg. "what is GIL and what is the historical background of it" is simply not a question one asks about python while in learning phase :) Another board topic where I guess I failed to ask the right questions was setting up the dev environment with venv and requirements.txt and whatnot. I needed multiple blog posts and other humans for that.

It was also quite bad at deciding if a language feature is available or not in a given python version, I always needed to rtfm for that.