[bennysaurus]

Absolutely agree with this. Starting at the base with small libraries in your language of choice and working your way up (similar to beginning with picture books and moving onto novels) is a fantastic way to both become more familiar with a coding language and also various coding styles as well.

When you come across pieces of code that may seem esoteric, doing a "rubber ducky" debug (talk through the code line by line with ann inanimate object) on it I find helps tremendously with both understanding what's going on along with the author's mental approach to the problem.

In the event they may just not be a great programmer you can still learning something from the way they approached the challenge.

[lifeisstillgood]

Plus one for the rubber duck analysis.

Of course anyone remote working has problems trying to do this in Starbucks.

[bennysaurus]

Are you sure? Sometimes wonder if talking to inanimate objects is just standard behaviour in Starbucks...