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by Breza 450 days ago
Very well put. I also read books to learn concepts. I usually only turn to documentation to remember the nitty gritty details that are easy to forget. Consider loading the first 100 rows of a large CSV. About as basic as code can get. Yet as I move between languages and libraries, it's hard to remember all the different syntaxes, so I find myself looking up official documentation.

read.csv("large.csv", nrows = 100)

read_csv("large.csv", n_max = 100)

pd.read_csv("large.csv", nrows=100)

pl.read_csv("large.csv", n_rows=100)

CSV.read("large.csv", DataFrame; limit=100)