[RealityVoid]

Absolutely not. Learning has been to experiment with the things until you form a effective mental model of the thing. Writing things does ab-so-luetely nothing except make you feel good in the moment. Just like listening to a lecture without engaging with the subject matter deeper.

Writing things down is important for organisational persistence of information but that is something else.

[direwolf20]

Writing is better than reading, but doing is better than writing.

[shimman]

How does this apply to coding when the act of writing IS doing? Or do you mean like coding "on your own" versus following a tutorial for example?

[coldtea]

Means writing code (doing) vs writing documentation / plans / project architecture documents and so on.

[direwolf20]

Writing code is doing

[matsemann]

Choosing what to write down is making a mental model, extracting the core and thinking about the subject.

Seems to me you're just a bad note-taker that blindly writes things down, and for some reason decided to use that lack of knowledge in a tirade against me..